Canada

In December 2017, the INDU Committee released the CASL Review.  According to the Report: “The statutory review of CASL took place between September 26 and December 12, 2017. Throughout that period, the Committee held 13 meetings, heard from 41 witnesses and received 29 briefs from a wide array of stakeholders…

Thank you to Cristina Onosé, Sarah Nasrullah and Haley Fine for your assistance in developing this article and support.  Executive Summary The renegotiated North-American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA 2.0, will have a significant impact on companies. The fundamental concept in the United States, Mexico and Canada Agreement is the…

On June 12, 2020, the day before the Québec National Assembly adjourned until September 2020, the Government of Québec introduced Bill 64, An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information. The proposal would bring significant changes to Québec private sector and public sector privacy law.…

TORONTO — LifeLabs failed to protect the personal health information of millions of Canadians, a joint investigation suggests. The joint investigation by the information and privacy commissioners of Ontario and B.C. says the failure resulted in a significant privacy breach in December 2019, which affected 15 million Canadians – primarily in…

Quebec’s proposed modernization of its private sector privacy legislation (Quebec Privacy Act) certainly contains a number of additional operationally burdensome demands on enterprises. However, the proposed amendments in Bill 64 contain several pragmatic, or even business-friendly, provisions. These provisions are not as headline grabbing as big administrative monetary penalties or…

On June 12, 2020, Quebec tabled its proposed update to its public and private sector privacy laws, and it lives up to the promise of the “GDPR-style legislation” first announced this spring. There are a number of elements that echo other federal and provincial privacy laws in Canada, but there…

I never would have consciously volunteered my home address, work location and vacation plans to Tim Hortons, but the company found out anyway. I haven’t been singled out for special treatment. For more than a year, the coffee chain has been tracking the movements of customers in exacting detail through…

The Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) yesterday approved of Bell Canada’s new AI-based anti-spam system on a 90-day trial basis. The system will be tested for 90 days to measure its efficacy in blocking fraudulent calls from illegitimate and malformed numbers. Bell’s application specifies that its new system uses AI…

Canada’s anti-spam law has been the target of intense criticism since its introduction in 2009 as the Electronic Commerce Protection Act. Even after the law passed in 2010, there was no shortage of effort to delay the regulations needed to put it into effect. Once it finally took effect in…

June 17, 10:00AM to 12:30PM EDT In jurisdictions around the world, automated contact tracing is being considered as an element of COVID-19 recovery efforts. However, in many regions these efforts are being met with resistance, with significant questions being raised around surveillance, privacy, and even the efficacy of such systems.…