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La Cour d’appel de la Colombie-Britannique confirme l’octroi de dommages-intérêts pour atteinte à la vie privée sans preuve de...

Le 23 avril 2025, dans l’affaire Insurance Corporation of British Columbia v. Ari (décision disponible uniquement en anglais), la Cour d’appel de la Colombie-Britannique (la « CACB ») a confirmé une décision de première...more

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Legal Uncertainty for Database Defendants? Appeal Courts Assess Privacy Causes of Action With Varying Outcomes

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The past year has introduced some uncertainty for institutional defendants facing privacy breach class actions in Canada. While Ontario’s Court of Appeal has been consistent in its approach to class actions against “database...more

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Data Spring Cleaning: Minimize Your Liability

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When we are retained by clients to guide them through a cyber-attack in which information has been stolen by a threat actor, we almost always find that the client has unnecessarily stored sensitive information far beyond the...more

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Protection de la vie privée au Canada : Nouvel outil d’autoévaluation des risques d’atteinte à la vie privée

Le 26 mars 2025, le Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada (le « CPVP ») a déployé, à l’intention des organisations, un outil d’autoévaluation du risque réel de préjudice grave à la vie privée (l’« outil »)....more

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Privacy Commissioner of Canada Releases Privacy Breach Risk Assessment Tool

On March 26, 2025, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) released a privacy breach real risk of significant harm assessment tool (Tool) for organizations....more

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Canadian Privacy Law 2024 Year in Review

As in previous years, our team marks Data Privacy Week with a summary of important privacy developments in Canada in 2024 and highlights what a busy electoral year could mean for Canadian privacy law in 2025....more

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British Columbia Appeal Court Finds Employer Vicariously Liable for Employee’s Willful Violation of Customers’ Privacy

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In Insurance Corporation of British Columbia v. Ari, 2023 BCCA 331, the British Columbia Court of Appeal (BCCA) confirmed that an employer may be found vicariously liable when its employee violates of s. 1 of the province’s...more

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No Action for Theft of Personal Information Without Loss

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Theft of personal information does not by itself entitle the victim to damages in Canada; proof of loss or harm is required, the Alberta Court of Appeal held recently in Setoguchi v Uber BV. This, and other recent decisions,...more

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Home Depot Gets Nailed by Privacy Commissioner for Sharing Data with Meta

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Recent findings by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”) found that Home Depot of Canada Inc. (“Home Depot”) did not obtain valid meaningful consent to share summary purchase information with Meta Platforms...more

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Intrusion Upon Seclusion Claims In Privacy Breach Class Actions? Court of Appeal Trilogy Offers Guidance

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In a trilogy of rulings released on November 25, 2022, the Ontario Court of Appeal (“Court”) has ruled that the tort of intrusion upon seclusion cannot extend to companies that collect and store personal information and fall...more

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Ontario Court of Appeal Removes Confusion: Negligent Security not an “Intrusion Upon Seclusion”

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The Ontario Court of Appeal recently ruled that an organization that fails to take adequate steps to safeguard personal information in its possession cannot be held liable under the tort of intrusion upon seclusion when that...more

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Responding to Personal Information Breaches in Québec: 5 Common Misconceptions

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With the first wave of amendments to Québec’s An Act Respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector (“PPIPS”) having taken effect just over a month ago, we thought we would share some misconceptions...more

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Nouvelles exigences relatives à la déclaration des incidents de confidentialité en vigueur au Québec

Depuis le 22 septembre 2022, les entités du secteur privé exerçant des activités au Québec doivent aviser, avec diligence, la Commission d’accès à l’information (la « CAI ») de toute atteinte à la vie privée (soit un «...more

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New Breach Reporting Requirements in Force in Quebec

As of September 22, 2022, private-sector entities carrying on business in Quebec are required to notify Quebec’s Commission d’acces a l’information (CAI) and affected individuals of a privacy breach (referred to as a...more

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Privacy Roundup Part Two: Significant International Updates

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Last week’s blog detailed the wave of state legislation that occurred in the U.S. during 2021. It is no surprise that there were also many data privacy developments abroad. It is crucial that organizations affected by...more

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Québec propose de moderniser son régime de protection des renseignements personnels

Le 12 juin 2020, le gouvernement du Québec a présenté le projet de loi no 64, intitulé Loi modernisant des dispositions législatives en matière de protection des renseignements personnels (le « projet de loi »), à l’Assemblée...more

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Quebec Introduces New Amendments to Its Privacy Regimes

On June 12, 2020, the Government of Quebec tabled Bill 64, an Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information (Bill), before the National Assembly of Quebec. The Bill proposes to...more

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