A controversial case dealing with a teacher’s privacy in the wake of child pornography charges is going to Canada’s top court. Sudbury, Ont., teacher Richard Cole was charged with possessing child pornography after explicit images of a 16-year-old female student were found on his work laptop computer, which Cole had obtained after accessing another student’s…
Category: Laws
Ca: Police suggest privacy law interfering with investigations
OpenMedia.ca published details of an email from the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) Wednesday that asked the police community to provide examples of situations where current privacy legislation has interfered with their investigations. In a release, the Vancouver-based advocacy group characterized the CACP email as an attempt to justify the Conservative government’s proposed…
Ca: Welcome to the new tort of ‘intrusion upon seclusion’
Heather Gardiner reports: The Ontario Court of Appeal has opened a Pandora’s box by recognizing a privacy tort of “intrusion upon seclusion,” says one intellectual property lawyer. In Jones v. Tsige, Sandra Jones and Winnie Tsige worked at different branches of the Bank of Montréal but did not know each other. Tsige began a relationship with…
E-Filing Privacy Lawsuit Heads to Supreme Court
Barbara Leonard reports: The Supreme Court will determine whether the government may be liable for an e-filing defect that allegedly published the expiration date of attorneys’ credit cards to the Internet. Attorney James Bormes used his credit card to pay the e-filing fee for a lawsuit he filed on behalf of one of his clients….