Auteure: Catherine Paquin-Veillette, Étudiante au cours de DRT6929E Le premier ministre Stephen Harper déclarait ce qui suit au sujet du dépôt à la Chambre des communes du Canada de son nouveau Projet de loi C-51 : Nous croyons que ce que nous faisons aujourd’hui […] nous rendra plus en sécurité […] Mais je ne suis pas […] Read more
Auteur: Raphael Pallanca, Étudiant au cours de DRT6929E Avis aux “cyberdjihadistes” et aux autres internautes: Big Bernard is watching you! À la suite des attentats perpétrés au Canada en octobre dernier, le gouvernement fédéral du Canada a récemment annoncé qu’il profitera des premiers mois de 2015 pour renforcer certaines lois. D’ailleurs un projet de […] Read more
Auteure: Catherine Paquin-Veillette, Étudiante au cours de DRT6929E Le 19 décembre 2014, le Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, ordonnait à Google de faire droit à une demande de déréférencement présentée par l’une de ses utilisatrice. Aussi appelé droit à l’oubli, le droit au déréférencement est la possibilité donnée à une personne de faire supprimer […] Read more
Auteure: Catherine Paquin-Veillette, Étudiante au cours de DRT6929E La Future of Life Institute soulève plusieurs questions juridiques relatives au développement de l’intelligence artificielle The Future of Life Institute (FLI) est un organisme sans but lucratif ayant comme principal objectif de soutenir la recherche et de sensibiliser la population aux différents risques existentiels auxquels l’humanité serait confrontée, […] Read more
I will be teaching, for a third consecutive year, DRT-6929E-A, a privacy law course at the University of Montreal Law Faculty. The class is offered to Masters degree students and takes place every Monday from 4 to 7pm, January 12 to April 13, 2015. I have been teaching since 2009 (e-commerce law from 2009 – […] Read more
Today, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in the R. v. Fearon case pertaining to the legality of cell phones searches by the police. Two men, one armed with a handgun, robbed a merchant as she loaded her car with jewellery. The robbers grabbed some bags and fled in a vehicle. Shortly, the police became […] Read more
My latest book Practical Guide to E-Commerce and Internet Law is out. It was co-authored with my colleague Elisa Henry, and IP and IT law expert and is published by LexisNexis. Other McMillan attorneys also contributed: Yasin Bismilla authored Chapter 6 on Patents, Michael Reid authored Chapter 7 on Website Development and Chapter 8 on Website Hosting, and A. Max […] Read more
Has Canada achieved the right balance between protecting the state’s national security interest and respecting the legitimate privacy expectations of Canadians? I recently contributed with Professor Vincent Gautrais (Université de Montréal) to a McGill Law Journal Podcast on the topic of government surveillance. The podcast entitled “Vie privée sous surveillance” (French only) discusses state surveillance in Canada […] Read more
A recent paper entitled “Privacy, Trusts and Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Information: The Quebec Perspective in the Canadian Context” co-authored with my colleague Pierre-Christian Hoffman has been published in Dalhousie Law Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1, November 2014, and is also available on SSRN. In this paper, we argue that data protection laws (PIPEDA and substantially […] Read more
In the recent land-mark decision Imperial Oil v. Jacques, 2014 SCC 66 that will surely provide fodder for those concerned with privacy rights in Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada (the “SCC”) has issued a decision which grants private litigants access to wiretap recordings obtained in the course of a criminal investigation conducted by the Competition Bureau. The SCC […] Read more