Police and the Internet
The government introduced two bills in the House on Thursday that raised some serious allegations in the media this week. The bills concern, among other things, police access to data collected by Canadian internet service…
Privacy
Data centres instead of car plants
Michael Geist proposed a digital strategy for Canada in Toronto Star on Saturday. It’s a big topic that we should definitely write more about here on Law is Cool. But let me just say one…
Beyond democracy
Most people think they know what democracy is or, at least, they know democracy when they see it. But try calling something undemocratic, and debates break out about the definition of democracy. Of course, I…
SCC: No Privacy Interest in Things We Throw Out
The Supreme Court of Canada today released its decision in R. v. Patrick, 2009 SCC 17, which concerns privacy interests in garbage and other abandoned items. The Court ruled that a police search of garbage abandoned…
Be Careful What You Post For
Following a trend of the erosion of privacy rights online, an Ontario couple who own a far-right website were ordered to disclose the names of eight anonymous posters related to a defamation lawsuit. The owners…
Facebook Privacy Settings May Keep Out Nosy Profile “Creepers†but not Modern Litigants
It was only a matter of time before Canadian jurisprudence began to develop in response to privacy issues and the admissibility of documents associated with enormously popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MSN’s…
Proposition 8 Maps on Who Donated
With privacy issues dominating the blawgosphere this week, here is an interesting development that might raise some eyebrows. Proposition 8, which prohibited same-sex marriage in California in the last federal election in the U.S., has…
Suggestions on how to react to the "CSIS is listening" revelation
Perturbed by the recent revelation that CSIS has been listening in on lawyer/client phone calls? (as discussed earlier, here) Concerned that CSIS has stated it will not stop listening in on such phone calls in…
CIRA, whois and IP Osgoode
Check out my post about CIRA’s ‘whois’ policy on the recently launched IP Osgoode wesbite. I wrote it as an assignment for my IP law class with professor D’Agostino.
I Spy with my Little Eye Something that is a Tort
The B.C. Supreme Court has awarded damages to a Vancouver woman whose landlord installed, without notice, a hidden video camera in the hallway outside of her suite. According to the ruling judge, Justice Paul Walker, at…
In Defense of Free Speech…
On June 28 2008, the Canadian Human Rights commission dismissed the complaint against Maclean’s magazine (Rogers Media) concerning an article by Mark Steyn, and rightly so. (The complainants held that the article, among others, established…