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Five Questions, Five Answers: Electric Mobility Canada on Its Promises for a Cleaner Economy
Five Questions, Five Answers: The Voice of Canadian Automotive Parts Manufacturers
The Great Green North: A Discussion on Canada’s Environmental Regulations
Blakes Continuity Podcast: Cutting Through the Weeds: A Look at Environmental Issues Impacting Businesses
Balado continuité – Environnement : nouveautés du régime d’autorisation québécois
Blakes Continuity Podcast: What to Expect When Insolvency Crosses the Border
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A Way Forward: Energy Industry Ready to Fuel Canada's Recovery
Blakes Continuity Podcast: The Moving Landscape of Foreign Investments
Blakes Continuity Podcast: COVID-19: The Regulatory Impact on Pensions
Employment and Labour in the Time of COVID-19
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This Week in FCPA-Episode 96, 2018 - the Opening Day edition
Exporting ERISA After Walter Canada
Le 4 juillet 2024, la Cour d’appel de la Colombie-Britannique (la « CACB ») a rendu deux jugements d’appel en matière d’actions collectives dans des contextes de fuite de données. Ce faisant, la CACB a clarifié la portée...more
In a pair of decisions released on July 5, 2024, the B.C. Court of Appeal found that an alleged reckless failure to safeguard personal information may be sufficient to make out Privacy Act claims of "wilful violation" of...more
2022 continued to be positive for institutional clients involved in privacy breach class actions, with the Ontario Court of Appeal refusing to expand the tort of intrusion upon seclusion to impose liability on institutions...more
Les cyberattaques se sont multipliées au cours des dernières années et leur puissance destructrice a augmenté considérablement. Comme le nombre de cyberincidents visant des organisations de toutes tailles continue de...more
On November 25, 2022, in Owsianik v. Equifax Canada Co., 2022 ONCA 813 (Owsianik), the Ontario Court of Appeal (Court) held that intrusion upon seclusion is not a viable cause of action against a defendant who has been the...more
Le métavers est souvent décrit comme l’Internet de demain. Bien que son développement n’en soit qu’à un stade précoce, des sociétés émergentes et d’autres bien établies investissent des millions de dollars dans la mise au...more
Le commissaire à l’information et à la protection de la vie privée de l’Ontario (le « CIPVP »), soit l’organisme de réglementation de la protection de la vie privée dans le secteur public et le domaine de la santé de...more
With the first wave of amendments to Québec’s An Act Respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector (“PPIPS”) having taken effect just over a month ago, we thought we would share some misconceptions...more
The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC), Ontario’s public sector and health privacy regulator, recently released a technology factsheet titled, “How to Protect Against Ransomware.” This factsheet is intended...more
La cybersécurité est l’un des enjeux de premier plan auxquels sont confrontées les entreprises et les organisations au Canada à l’heure actuelle. Or, bon nombre d’entre elles ne sont toujours pas dotées d’un plan...more
A little over nine months after it passed An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information (“Bill 64”) overhauling, among other legislation, the province’s public and private sector...more
Cybersecurity incidents are becoming increasingly common and disruptive. In the Blakes 2022 Cyber Trends Study, we identified that ransomware attacks continue to be highly prevalent, representing over half of the observed...more
The Canadian Institute’s 11th Annual Forum on U.S. Export & Re-Export Compliance for Canadian Operations will take place in Toronto on January 25–27! IN-PERSON and LIVESTREAM options available. Over the last decade, this...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
The Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, in Setoguchi v Uber B.V., 2021 ABQB 18, recently dismissed an application for certification of a proposed class action resulting from a data breach because there was no evidence of harm...more
The UK National Cyber Security Centre and Canada’s Communications Security Establishment released an advisory linking APT29 (also known as, ‘the Dukes’ or ‘Cozy Bear’) to attacks against COVID-19 vaccine development in...more
As cyberattacks become both more prevalent and complex, it’s often no longer a matter of “if”, but “when” a breach will occur. However, organizations can take steps to reduce the risk of a breach and to mitigate the impact of...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
Several former Yahoo! Inc. executives recently settled a derivative action for US$29-million, following data breaches from 2013 and 2014 that compromised approximately three billion accounts. These data breaches were the...more
With South Dakota and Alabama’s new statutes, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have now enacted data breach notification laws. The Oregon and Delaware amended statutes will enhance requirements, and Canada’s new law...more
The Government of Canada has announced that its proposed data breach notification requirements pursuant to the Digital Privacy Act (the “Act”) will take effect on November 1, 2018. The Act amends Canada’s Personal...more
We have frequently alerted individuals and companies about the increasing risk and success posed by sophisticated phishing schemes. It has become such a real and grave problem that the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness...more
Retail Tracking Update: Privacy Guidance Following Nomi Technologies - There is currently a widespread effort to quantify everything, from steps, to sleep, to batted ball exit velocity. Fifteen years ago, TV host Jeremy...more
These are busy times in the data privacy/security world. If Misery Loves Company, Target Has Friends - Target was not the only target of data thieves this holiday season. Reports over the weekend revealed that...more