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Supreme Court Confirms Privacy Survives in the Workplace

Millions of Canadians go to work each day, turn on their workplace computers, and wonder whether they have also shut off their privacy. Many employers seek to remove any reasonable expectation of privacy by telling employees that they should not expect any privacy when using workplace computers during company time.

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Canada grappled with the question of workplace privacy and arrived a somewhat different conclusion. My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) notes it ruled that the workplace environment may diminish an employee’s reasonable expectation of privacy, but it does not remove the expectation altogether.

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November 2, 2012 3 comments Columns

Supreme Court Confirms Privacy Rights Survive in the Workplace

Appeared in the Toronto Star on October 28, 2012 as Supreme Court Confirms Privacy Rights Survive in the Workplace Millions of Canadians go to work each day, turn on their workplace computers, and wonder whether they have also shut off their privacy. Many employers seek to remove any reasonable expectation […]

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November 2, 2012 Comments are Disabled Columns Archive

Watching Your Employees: Emerging Personal Emerging Personal Boundaries in the Workplace

3rd Annual Data Privacy and Security Summit, Washington, DC

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February 12, 2003 Comments are Disabled Conferences

Computer And E-Mail Workplace Surveillance In Canada

Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto

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February 12, 2003 Comments are Disabled Conferences

Computer and E-Mail Workplace Surveillance in Canada: The Shift From Reasonable Expectation of Priva

Computer and E-Mail Workplace Surveillance in Canada: The Shift From Reasonable Expectation of Privacy to Reasonable Surveillance, 82 Canadian Bar Review 151-89 (2003)

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January 1, 2003 Comments are Disabled Scholarship