Who should own your wedding pictures? In recent weeks, the federal government has moved aggressively on several policy fronts, including proposed new child pornography and hate speech legislation. While those initiatives have generated national headlines, a Senate bill that threatens Canadians' consumer rights and personal privacy is quietly but swiftly […]
Archive for October, 2004
International Conference on the Legal Aspects of an E-Commerce Transaction
Hague Conference on Private International Law, The Hague, The Netherlands link
Rising to the Privacy Reform Challenge
My weekly Toronto Star Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) picks up on last week’s discussion of the need to name names as part of Canada’s privacy law by advocating further reforms to the privacy law framework. The column argues that for many for many […]
Revise privacy law to expose offenders, block snoops
Last week’s Law Bytes column, which urged Canada’s privacy commissioner to lift the veil of anonymity on targets of well-founded privacy complaints, generated some pointed feedback. Some letter-writers expressed support for the current system, arguing that Canada is better suited to an ombuds-type approach, rather than the more litigious system […]
IT.Can Annual Conference
Calgary, Alberta link
Recent Posts
Debating the Online Harms Act: Insights from Two Recent Panels on Bill C-63 
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 199: Boris Bytensky on the Criminal Code Reforms in the Online Harms Act 
AI Spending is Not an AI Strategy: Why the Government’s Artificial Intelligence Plan Avoids the Hard Governance Questions 
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 198: Richard Moon on the Return of the Section 13 Hate Speech Provision in the Online Harms Act 
Tweets Are Not Enough: Why Combatting Relentless Antisemitism in Canada Requires Real Leadership and Action
