ChatGPT—the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot—has been making headlines since its initial release date on November 30, 2022. Most recently, ChatGPT has been the subject of attention in connection with privacy...more
The Ontario Court of Appeal recently released a trilogy of decisions (Winder v. Marriott International, Inc., 2022 ONCA 815; Obodo v. Trans Union of Canada, Inc., 2022 ONCA 814; Owsianik v. Equifax Canada Co., 2022 ONCA 813)...more
OSFI, the Canadian Federal Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, on August 13, 2021, issued new guidance on Technology and Cyber Security Incident Reporting, replacing prior guidance of March 2019....more
8/31/2021
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Federal Privacy Commissioner Calls for Stronger Privacy Protections in Bill C-11 -
In November 2020, the federal government tabled Bill C-11, the proposed new private-sector privacy law that would replace the current...more
On April 30, 2021, the Government of Ontario introduced Building a Digital Ontario, the province's new digital and data strategy, which lays the foundation for Ontario to become "the world's leading digital jurisdiction."...more
Comprehensive reform to Canada's privacy legislation—which privacy experts have long anticipated—is now imminent. Today, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, the Honourable Navdeep Bains, tabled the Digital...more
In its Annual Report to Parliament on the Privacy Act and Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has repeated its previous calls for reform to...more
Ontario's Ministry of Government and Consumer Services recently announced that it is contemplating new private sector privacy legislation (PSPL) to govern how businesses collect, use and disclose customers' data. The Ministry...more
As the digital landscape evolves, and the commoditization of personal information increases, expectations as to what constitutes appropriate consent for the collection, use and disclosure of personal information in Canada are...more
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (OIPC) released its 2018 Annual Report: Privacy and Accountability for a Digital Ontario on Wednesday, July 10, 2019. This report signals a move toward...more
7/16/2019
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Seeking input from interested third parties, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) announced a revision to its policy position on transborder data flow under the federal Personal Information Protection and...more
The CEO of the popular ride-sharing app, Uber, published a bombshell letter to the public yesterday, stating that two hackers had stolen information from almost 60 million driver and rider accounts in October 2016....more
The Importance of Detection Once the Enemy Is Past the Gates -
The recently announced data breaches involving Equifax, Deloitte and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission underscore that data breaches are a way of...more
Cybersecurity is a significant business risk for any organization that collects personal data. The greater the amount of personal data collected by an organization, the greater the risk that it will be targeted by...more
Names, emails, credit card numbers, and home addresses: chances are good that your business collects client data with information that is valuable to hackers on the black market. A hacker will at some point try to access...more
The United States Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") strikes again. In the action by the FTC involving the cybersecurity breach of Toronto-based AshleyMadison.com (operated by Ruby Corp. and hereafter referred to as "Ashley...more