Legislators and organizations should pay close attention to recent decisions from the BC Court of Appeal (“BCCA”) in Campbell v. Capital One (“Capital One”)[1] and G.D. v. South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority (“TransLink”).[2] In these decisions, it appears that the BCCA is asking whether the existing legal regime, including regulatory ...
The BC Court of Appeal (“BCCA”) has indicated a clear shift in its approach to cyber-breach cases that will encourage class-action litigation.
Until now, plaintiffs in British Columbia were generally precluded from advancing privacy tort claims against custodians of personal information that were victims of a criminal cyber attack because the Privacy Act required ...
Employers sometimes discover evidence that a former employee may be or have been in breach of their obligations to the employer. Sometimes the employee’s own direct messages on social media accounts corroborate wrongdoing. Is it a privacy breach if an employer accesses the social media direct messages, and can the employee sue them for breach of privacy?
A recent ...
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