It has been many years since the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal captured headlines. The services at the heart of the case no longer exist, but the legal case in Canada continues to march on. Last month, the Federal Court of Appeal overturned a lower court decision that had largely sided with Facebook. In its place, it released a new decision that includes and analysis of reasonableness under the Canadian privacy law and engages with the notion of a potential trust but verify standard in some cases when data is transferred to third parties. The case may not be over yet, but the latest decision has big implications for privacy in Canada. David Fraser, one of Canada’s leading privacy practitioners with McInnes Cooper and the creator a popular Youtube channel on privacy law, joins the Law Bytes podcast to provide the background on the case, assess the key findings, and consider what may come next.
The Bill C-2 lawful access focus has thus far primarily centred on the creation of a new warrantless information demand power and the expansion...
For years, Canada resisted extending the term of copyright beyond the international standard of life of the author plus 50 years. That appears to...
With a federal election just called and the campaign now underway, the focus will turn - at least in very small part - to...