privacy
Security Breach Involving Personal Information: What Type of Harm Can Lead to Damages Being Awarded?,
Privacy and the Monetization of Data
Privacy and the Monetization of Data, The Conference Board of Canada, Council of Chief Privacy Officers, Toronto, January 30, 2015. Read more
Privacy, Trusts and Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Information: The Quebec Perspective
Privacy, Trusts and Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Information: The Quebec Perspective, Dalhousie Law Journal, 37, No. 1, 2014. (co-author with Pierre-Christian Hoffman) Read more
Mario Dumont show
Mario Dumont show, TVA, December 19, 2014 (interviewed by Mario Dumont on health self-tracking devices and privacy issues). Read more
Health-tracking bracelets and privacy issues
Health-tracking bracelets are growing in popularity and many industry players have introduced these types of devices and apps in the last few years. We can think of the Apple Watch and Healthkit as well as the Fitbit App. Personal fitness bracelets can track users’ steps and calories burned and collect information on health, heart rate, and sleep. […] Read more
Privacy in the age of Big Data
Yves Faguy, Are Canada’s privacy laws robust enough to protect consumers from Big Data?, November 11, 2014. Read more
Développements récents en vie privée
A picture is worth a thousand words
A Court decision was rendered in Quebec city earlier this week, granting damages to a woman wearing a niqab and her husband under the right to one’s image. The facts are as follows: the editor of a magazine about immigrants in Quebec city took a picture of a woman wearing a niqab in a flea market and used it to […] Read more
Mobile apps and privacy challenges
The WSP reports that most mobile apps don’t respect users’ privacy. The Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) undertook last May a second privacy sweep demonstrating the ongoing commitment of privacy enforcement authorities to work together to promote privacy protection around the world. It is reported that some 26 privacy enforcement authorities in 19 countries participated […] Read more
Is behavioral advertising harmful?
The Economist published a great piece on behavioral advertising : “Getting to know you: Everything people do online is avidly followed by advertisers and third-party trackers”. I blogged yesterday about the fact that the article raises an interesting point: industry players often take the position that since they do not know the users’ names, what they are collecting […] Read more