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Q&A on Cybersecurity and Family Enterprises: How to Navigate the Digital Frontier

Bennett Jones LLP on 5/23/2025

In an era where digital threats are more sophisticated than ever, cybersecurity has become a pressing concern for family enterprises. These businesses are attractive targets for cyberattacks and need to balance the critical...more

Don’t Be the Next Victim of a BEC Scam

Bennett Jones LLP on 4/8/2025

Businesses are increasingly defrauded through common scams known as business email compromise scams (BEC scams) for which they do not have insurance to cover the resulting losses. Fortunately, there are easy-to-implement...more

10 Key Questions to Guide Cyber Risk Management

Bennett Jones LLP on 4/4/2025

Asking the right questions within your organization is key to effectively managing cyber risk. Here are 10 questions that you should ask your team...more

Décodage des défis de cybersécurité : Perspectives et pratiques exemplaires

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 1/8/2025

Les cybermenaces se multiplient et évoluent sans cesse, ce qui oblige les organisations à maintenir leur résilience opérationnelle et à protéger leurs actifs clés, comme leurs infrastructures critiques et leurs données...more

Cybersecurity Challenges Decoded: Insights and Best Practices

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 12/19/2024

Cybersecurity threats continue to grow and evolve, increasing pressure on organizations to maintain operational resilience and protect their key assets, such as critical infrastructure and sensitive data. As cyberattacks...more

Salt Typhoon Cyberattacks: New Federal Cybersecurity Guidelines for Telecoms

Perkins Coie on 12/16/2024

U.S. federal agencies, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (in coordination with similar agencies in Australia,...more

Fuite de données : La CACB clarifie la portée potentielle des recours à l’encontre des consignataires de données en matière de...

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 7/30/2024

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

B.C. Court of Appeal Finds that Allegedly Reckless Database Custodians may be Liable for "Wilful Violations" of Privacy Under the...

Bennett Jones LLP on 7/16/2024

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

The Ontario Court of Appeal Confirms the Narrow Confines of the Tort of Intrusion Upon Seclusion

Bennett Jones LLP on 6/5/2023

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

[Event] 22nd Annual Canadian Forum on Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime - June 7th - 8th, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 5/22/2023

AML compliance for reporting entities has never been of greater critical importance than it is today. With the growing sophistication of criminals and the methods and technologies that they employed, combined with the...more

Tendances relatives aux litiges en matière de cybersécurité

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 12/29/2022

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

Court of Appeal for Ontario Limits Intrusion Upon Seclusion Claims in Cybersecurity Cases

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 11/30/2022

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 : De nouveaux défis au chapitre des litiges

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 11/28/2022

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

Protéger votre organisation contre les menaces de rançongiciels : nouvelles lignes directrices

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 11/7/2022

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

Responding to Personal Information Breaches in Québec: 5 Common Misconceptions

Stikeman Elliott LLP on 11/3/2022

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

Protecting Your Organization from Ransomware Threats: New Guidance from Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 10/28/2022

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

L’Autorité ontarienne de réglementation des services financiers adopte une directive de cybersécurité

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 9/26/2022

Le 18 août 2022, l’Autorité ontarienne de réglementation des services financiers (l’« ARSF ») – l’organisme de réglementation du secteur des services financiers de l’Ontario – a adopté la directive de cybersécurité du Conseil...more

Aperçu de la situation : Principaux constats tirés de notre étude récente sur la cybersécurité

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 9/26/2022

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

Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario Adopts Cybersecurity Guidance

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 9/19/2022

On August 18, 2022, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) – Ontario’s financial sector regulator – adopted the Mortgage Broker Regulators' Council of Canada's Cybersecurity Guidance (Guidance). The...more

Québec’s Proposed Confidentiality Incident Regulation: When to Notify and What to Include

Stikeman Elliott LLP on 7/29/2022

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

The Best Offence Is a Great Defence: Prioritizing Cyber-Preparedness

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 7/7/2022

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

[Event] U.S. Export & Reexport Compliance For Canadian Operations - January 26th - 27th, Toronto, ON, Canada

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 12/20/2021

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 Cybersecurity Guidance and Notification Requirements

Bennett Jones LLP on 8/31/2021

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

La Cour divisionnaire de l’Ontario refuse d’autoriser une action collective fondée sur le délit d’intrusion dans l’intimité

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 6/21/2021

Le 9 juin 2021, dans l’affaire Owsianik v. Equifax Canada Co., 2021 ONSC 4112 (l’« affaire Equifax »), la majorité des juges de la Cour divisionnaire de l’Ontario a rejeté le délit d’intrusion dans l’intimité comme question...more

Ontario Divisional Court Overturns Certification of Intrusion Upon Seclusion Claim

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 6/16/2021

On June 9, 2021, in Owsianik v Equifax Canada Co (Equifax), 2021 ONSC 4112, a majority of the Divisional Court overturned the certification of intrusion upon seclusion as a common issue in a class proceeding involving a...more

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