Patent Considerations in View of the Nearshoring Trends to the Americas
No Password Required: Education Lead at Semgrep and Former Czar for Canada’s Election Security
4 Key Takeaways | Major U.S. Supreme Court Trademark & Copyright Decisions
Hidden Traffic : New Human Trafficking and Child Labor Regulation in Canada with Sean Stephenson
[Podcast] Catching Up on Canadian Environmental Regulation
[Podcast] USMCA in Review, with C.J. Mahoney, Former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
Episode 4 - USMCA and the trade relationship between the U.S.A, Mexico, & China
Five Questions, Five Answers: Electric Mobility Canada on Its Promises for a Cleaner Economy
Five Questions, Five Answers: The Voice of Canadian Automotive Parts Manufacturers
The Great Green North: A Discussion on Canada’s Environmental Regulations
Blakes Continuity Podcast: Cutting Through the Weeds: A Look at Environmental Issues Impacting Businesses
Balado continuité – Environnement : nouveautés du régime d’autorisation québécois
Blakes Continuity Podcast: What to Expect When Insolvency Crosses the Border
Infrastructure and Indigenous Engagement
A Way Forward: Energy Industry Ready to Fuel Canada's Recovery
Blakes Continuity Podcast: The Moving Landscape of Foreign Investments
Blakes Continuity Podcast: COVID-19: The Regulatory Impact on Pensions
Employment and Labour in the Time of COVID-19
Nota Bene Episode 70: Examining the USMCA: Is it Simply a Rebranded NAFTA? with Scott Maberry
This Week in FCPA-Episode 96, 2018 - the Opening Day edition
Le 4 juillet 2024, la Cour d’appel de la Colombie-Britannique (la « CACB ») a rendu deux jugements d’appel en matière d’actions collectives dans des contextes de fuite de données. Ce faisant, la CACB a clarifié la portée...more
2022 continued to be positive for institutional clients involved in privacy breach class actions, with the Ontario Court of Appeal refusing to expand the tort of intrusion upon seclusion to impose liability on institutions...more
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
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
Le métavers est souvent décrit comme l’Internet de demain. Bien que son développement n’en soit qu’à un stade précoce, des sociétés émergentes et d’autres bien établies investissent des millions de dollars dans la mise au...more
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
A little over nine months after it passed An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information (“Bill 64”) overhauling, among other legislation, the province’s public and private sector...more
OSFI, the Canadian Federal Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, on August 13, 2021, issued new guidance on Technology and Cyber Security Incident Reporting, replacing prior guidance of March 2019....more
The Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, in Setoguchi v Uber B.V., 2021 ABQB 18, recently dismissed an application for certification of a proposed class action resulting from a data breach because there was no evidence of harm...more
Lorsque votre organisation est victime d’une cyberattaque ou d’une atteinte à la protection des données, la protection du secret professionnel devient vitale. À la suite d’une telle atteinte, les événements peuvent se...more
When your organization is addressing a cyber-attack or other data breach, protecting privilege is crucial. In the aftermath of a data breach, events can move very quickly. However, appropriate steps should be taken to ensure...more
Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 7 (July 2020) - Concerns about hacking and online security have fallen since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the fact that the actual risks have risen, according to the 2020...more
As cyberattacks become both more prevalent and complex, it’s often no longer a matter of “if”, but “when” a breach will occur. However, organizations can take steps to reduce the risk of a breach and to mitigate the impact of...more
Several former Yahoo! Inc. executives recently settled a derivative action for US$29-million, following data breaches from 2013 and 2014 that compromised approximately three billion accounts. These data breaches were the...more
More on the rather shocking departure of John Flannery from GE, the Board that didn’t want to give him any more leash for his turnaround plans, and the future of the embattled corporate giant under Larry Culp....more
Though he was apparently ready to go with his “verbal agreement with the Saudis” defense, Elon Musk capitulated to pressure “from his lawyers and investors of Tesla” and agreed to resolve all SEC allegations of wrongdoing,...more
With South Dakota and Alabama’s new statutes, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have now enacted data breach notification laws. The Oregon and Delaware amended statutes will enhance requirements, and Canada’s new law...more
The Government of Canada has announced that its proposed data breach notification requirements pursuant to the Digital Privacy Act (the “Act”) will take effect on November 1, 2018. The Act amends Canada’s Personal...more
The security breach announced by Equifax Inc. on September 7, 2017, grabbed headlines around the world as Equifax revealed that personal data of roughly 143 million consumers in the United States and certain UK and Canadian...more
News about malicious cyber-attacks have been flooding media outlets in recent weeks as high-profile viruses (including WannaCry and Petya) continue to hit leading global and Canadian companies. What’s the cost here at home?...more
Given the increasing threat of cyberattacks and the corresponding costs, businesses are increasingly considering cybersecurity insurance. But insurance is only as effective as the scope of the coverage. Though Canadian...more
McDonald’s Canada has shut down its careers webpage following a breach that occurred in mid-March. A hacker gained access to the jobs section of its website and compromised the personal information, including names,...more
Names, emails, credit card numbers, and home addresses: chances are good that your business collects client data with information that is valuable to hackers on the black market. A hacker will at some point try to access...more
Your organization will in all likelihood suffer a cyberattack. According to a recent study by Accenture, the average Canadian organization faces about 96 cyberattacks per year, nearly one third of which result in a security...more
Lightspeed, a retail point-of-sale company that provides cloud-based services to 38,000 clients, has reported that its central database, which stores client information on sales, products, encrypted passwords, and in some...more