- Posts by Emily Raymond
AssociateEmily is an associate in both the Labour, Employment and Human Rights Group and the Privacy and Data Management Group in Vancouver. She practices in all aspects of workplace law including occupational health and safety issues ...
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 ...
Facebook admitted in Federal Court that Cambridge Analytica accessed personal information of over 600,000 Canadian Facebook users through a third party application without permission and in breach of Facebook policies. Nevertheless, the Federal Court decided Facebook did not breach the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”).
The proposed Consumer Privacy Protection Act (“CPPA”) is intended to replace the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. The current text of the CPPA introduces the new concept of “service providers,” and may require organizations to take a different approach to their vendor and service provider agreements.
See our previous blogs about ...
The proposed Consumer Privacy Protection Act (“CPPA”) is intended to replace the Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”). The current text of the CPPA will make a number of significant changes to some of the consent requirements Canadian private sector organizations must obtain.
See our previous blog about CPPA’s proposed privacy ...
Introduction to the CPPA
In June 2022, the federal government introduced Bill C-27, which proposes significant updates to Canada’s federal private sector privacy framework. Bill C-27 is currently in its second reading in the House of Commons. If passed, Bill C-27 would replace the Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act with the Consumer Privacy Protection ...
With increasing numbers of Canadians being immunized each day against COVID-19, the question on many peoples’ minds is whether Canadians will be asked to prove they are vaccinated by way of a vaccine passport. Vaccine passports can take a range of forms, but the defining feature is a verified record of a person’s immunization status.
The question many employers are now ...
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