Plethora of Pending IT Legislation
That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows. Those who practice in the IT area have a lot of potential new law to digest. The Federal government has several bills in various...
View ArticleBill c-52 Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications
David Fraser has a post worth reading entitled Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act bill one step closer to (warrantless) surveillance state. The bill has been called...
View ArticleLaws requiring data retention ill-advised
I’m not a fan of laws that require entities such as ISP’s to retain data about its customers so law enforcement can get to it. To me, that flies in the face of privacy principles that say one should...
View ArticleSurveillance society requires debate
That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows. There has been a lot written lately about the disturbing trend towards becoming a surveillance society. And the equally disturbing...
View ArticleLegislators have too many control issues
That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows. The trend to more invasive surveillance and control by North American governments (indeed, by many countries that we consider civilized...
View ArticleStores tracking our cell phones
Today’s Slaw post: Some retailers are following customer movement in stores by tracking cell phone movement. From a legal perspective it raises issues around privacy and perhaps wiretapping laws. To...
View ArticlePrivacy Commissioner issues guidance on police body cameras
The federal Privacy Commissioner has just released a report giving guidance on the privacy implications of police wearing body-worn cameras, and what police need to do to comply with privacy laws. It...
View ArticleThe Surveillance Society is already here
Canadians often look at intrusive, anti-privacy surveillance in other countries, and at things like the NSA and Patriot Act in the United States and think we are above that. But it is becoming apparent...
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Enemy of the State – still topical
I recently watched the 1998 movie Enemy of the State . It is a spy thriller about a lawyer being smeared by politicians because they believe he has information that can implicate them in criminal...
View ArticleEmerging tech – potentially awesome and a privacy quagmire
I attended an event last night where Duncan Stewart of Deloitte talked about their TMT predictions for 2016. It reinforced for me that the future of tech and what it will do for us is potentially...
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