Is Breach Response Privileged? Perhaps not.
Do litigation privilege and solicitor client privilege apply to post breach documents or forensic reports? The Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner doesn’t seem to think so.
Access Granted: Nunavut Privacy Breach
In this recent decision, the Privacy Commissioner takes the rare step of recommending prosecution of the offending party following a privacy breach. See why.
PHIPA & Privacy: Beware the Rogue Departing Employee
What happens when departing employees of medical clinics retain personal health information?
Intrusion upon Seclusion. Resurrected.
The tort of “intrusion upon seclusion”, first adopted in Ontario by the Court of Appeal in its much-discussed decision in Jones v. Tsighe, has been given new life, and perhaps additional significance, by a recent decision…
The Altima-te Price For A Privacy Breach
The Superior Court’s decision in Grossman v. Nissan is yet another example of a data breach involving the theft of personal information resulting in a class action.
Another Privacy Class Action Settlement
Do plaintiffs have to sue in federal court for PIPEDA violations? Maybe not anymore!