Wiertz Sebastien - Privacy by Sebastien Wiertz (CC BY 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/ahk6nh

Wiertz Sebastien - Privacy by Sebastien Wiertz (CC BY 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/ahk6nh

Privacy

Kerr on Privacy Idealism

My colleague Ian Kerr posts a great speech he recently delivered on the importance of privacy "idealism" in advocacy.

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July 24, 2008 1 comment News

Supreme Court of Canada Rejects Privacy Commissioner Blood Tribe Appeal

The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's appeal in the Blood Tribe case.  The case raised questions of solicitor-client privilege in the context of PIPEDA investigations.

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July 17, 2008 Comments are Disabled News

YouTube Ordered To Hand Over User Data

Many people have written about a U.S. decision ordering Google to disclose a massive amount of personal information about their users.  Many U.S. experts expect the decision to be overturned on appeal.

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July 3, 2008 1 comment News

CIRA’s Backdoor Access in New WHOIS Policy

My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, Ottawa Citizen version, homepage version) revisits the disappointment with CIRA's implementation of its new whois policy. While dot-ca registrants across the country were being advised of the new policy last April, special interests representing law enforcement and trademark holders were quietly pressuring […]

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July 1, 2008 4 comments Columns

CIRA Creates Backdoor to Domain Name Information

Appeared in the Toronto Star on June 30, 2008 as CIRA's 'whois' Policy a Stunning Setback for Privacy Two months ago, I wrote a glowing review of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority's new "whois" policy that was supposed to better protect the privacy of hundreds of thousands of Canadians.  The […]

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June 30, 2008 2 comments Columns Archive