How private is your internet address? Very, says the Supreme Court of Canada. Police can’t just walk into a company and demand a suspect’s IP address by saying a Canadian resident doesn’t have an expectation of privacy of that information, the court ruled today. An IP address is vital enough that every resident expects it […]
A Canadian court has again rejected Google’s claim for an exemption from federal privacy law for its search engine results in case raising the so-called “right to be forgotten.” The first time Google lost was in a July 2021 decision by Federal Court Judge Jocelyne Gagné, who dismissed arguments that the Personal Information Protection and […]
Several proposed class action lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. stemming from the exploitation and data thefts in January from a vulnerability in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT file transfer software. Now a Canadian action has been filed. Last week a Saskatchewan-based law firm, Merchant Law Group. launched a national class action suit on behalf of […]
Meta has been hit with a record 1.2 billion euro (US$1.3 billon) fine by the European Union following an investigation into Facebook’s transfers of personal data since July 2020. In addition, Meta has been ordered to stop the unlawful processing and transfer of the personal data of European residents to the U.S. by October. The […]
Former Uber Technologies chief security officer (CSO) Joseph Sullivan was sentenced to probation Thursday for trying to cover up a 2016 data breach and theft of tens of millions of customer records, the Associated Press said. Convicted last October by a jury of hiding the incident from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Sullivan was sentenced […]
Google has been ordered to pay a Quebec man $500,000 in moral damages for not removing a link in its search engine to an article wrongly alleging he was convicted of a sexual offence. However, it was the judge’s refusal to agree that Google is a mere neutral messenger of information that may be of […]
Former Uber Technologies chief security officer (CSO) Joe Sullivan has been convicted by a jury of hiding a 2016 data breach from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Bloomberg News reported the San Francisco jury rejected his defence that other executives knew about the coverup and were responsible, convicting him of obstructing a government investigation and […]
Consider the following situation: an employer knows that their employee is working overtime. However, that employee did not request permission in advance to work overtime. When the employee subsequently seeks compensation for the overtime worked, is the employer in this situation responsible for paying the employee? The case below addresses this issue. Fresco v. CIBC […]
When it comes to embracing technological advances, the translation services industry can be considered to be among the list of quick adopters. Translation technology has a long history in parallel with major advancements in tech in general, the most significant being the rise of computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools in the 1990s with the public and […]
