Privacy

In June 2020, Québec became the first Canadian province to propose a major privacy reform when the government introduced Bill 64, An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information, which modifies Québec’s private and public-sector privacy statutes. The Canadian government followed on November 17 with the introduction…

WhatsApp is the most popular communications app on the planet with over two billion users using it for messaging. Bought by Facebook in 2014, the service popularised the use of end-to-end encryption in day-to-day communications, introducing it as its default for messaging in 2016. To do so it cooperated with Moxy Marlinspike’s…

Businesses faced so many issues in 2020 that they could be forgiven for not updating their protocols for Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (“LGPD”), Brazil’s new data privacy regulation, especially in light of the government’s refusal to delay implementation of the regulation in light of COVID-19 concerns. Indeed, a number…

Popular messaging service WhatsApp recently saw a huge group of its users jump ship for rival platforms. The reason for the switch? An updated privacy policy. WhatsApp recently announced a new privacy policy that no longer allows users to opt out of  sharing their data with parent company Facebook. According…

Since the beginning of 2020, communities throughout the world—personal and professional—have been impacted in a way that was always only talked about in hypothetical scenarios, such as running an organization completely virtually. Belief in the technological prowess achieved by humans meant that this hypothesis would never come to be tested.…

Facebook further escalated its long-brewing fight with Apple this week, launching a second round of full-page newspaper ads Thursday charging that new Apple privacy measures will hurt small businesses. At the same time, Facebook is backing developers in a lawsuit against Apple’s app store policies. The big picture: Apple wants to…

As a digital society, we’re in the midst of a privacy reckoning and a crisis of confidence. The egregious data collection by tech companies has infuriated users, sparked regulation like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and prompted Congress to summon Google, Facebook,…

In June, we told you about Facebook’s efforts to force Namecheap to divulge private details about all of our domain registrants — people like you. Since then, there have been a number of new developments we wanted to share with you. We are currently litigating in federal court to dismiss the lawsuit…

What’s the issue? The ePrivacy Directive (EU Directive 2002/58/EC) establishes (amongst others) specific rules on privacy for the electronic communications sector, such as limiting the use of traffic and location data and prohibiting listening to, or otherwise accessing the contents of, communications.  These rules apply to “service providers” (and more…

Minister Bains is tabling a new Bill on Monday November 16, 2020 in the House of Commons entitled “An Act to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act and the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts”. ISED outlined some “proposals…