Decima Publishing’s Network Letter provides great coverage of Professor Geist’s recent spam speech at the Law Society’s Communication Law conference. The two-page article highlights the key points in the speech including the need for better enforcement of existing Canadian law. see: Workplace Privacy Gets Day in Court also see: BC […]
Archive for April, 2004
Federal Court to Examine Workplace Privacy Issue
The Globe and Mail reports on the use of surveillance technologies in the workplace and an upcoming federal court case that will examine a privacy law finding involving the use of video surveillance in a railway yard. The case comes on the heels of the release yesterday of two additional […]
Untouchable? The Canadian Battle Against Spam
The Ottawa Citizen covers Professor Geist’s recent speech on anti-spam measures in Canada, delivered at the Law Society’s Bi-Annual Conference on Communications Law. The speech argued that Canada already has most of the legal tools needed to combat spam and that better enforcement is needed. see: Spam: We’ve Got the […]
Sparring with “Spam”
Law Society of Upper Canada, New Developments in Communications Law and Policy link
Is Canada’s Privacy Law A Privacy Placebo?
Professor Geist’s regular Toronto Star Law Bytes column (Toronto Star version, HTML backup article, homepage version) questions the effectiveness of Canada’s privacy legislation, arguing that privacy laws without effective enforcement and genuine transparency may provide Canadians with little more than placebo privacy protection. The column suggests that responsibility for these […]