Big changes are coming to B.C.’s privacy laws. Effective February 1, 2023, new Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (“FIPPA”) sections (36.2 and 36.3) and regulations will come into force. For the first time, a B.C. privacy law will require breach reporting and the implementation of a privacy management program.
Breach Notification
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Your employees are probably engaging in risky online behaviour while at work. With a view to helping with your cyber-hygiene and legal compliance, we have set out a few reasons we know this and some tips to address it.
We routinely see cyber incidents, big and small, arise from employee behaviour. Sometimes, they are intentional acts of a rogue employee. Often, employees are ...
A majority of the updates to Québec’s private sector privacy law in Law 25, also known as Bill 64, An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information (Bill 64), will come into force on September 22, 2023. Some provisions will come into effect on September 22, 2022. We have outlined a few of the significant upcoming changes ...
In the latest class action decision involving the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (“ICBC”), the British Columbia Supreme Court (“BCSC”) found ICBC vicariously liable for a rogue employee’s privacy breaches (Ari v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 2022 BCSC 1475 (“Ari”)). This surprising decision has important implications for ...
It was probably a surprise to many who read James McLeod’s article in June 2020, that Tim Hortons’ app collected detailed location information. Ironically, the journalist learned of the personal information the app collected about him from Tim Horton’s response to his access request. Despite only providing the app permission to use the location functionality of ...
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