David Fraser writes: The Alberta Courts have once again issued a stunning decision regarding privacy laws in that province. In this case, United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 401 v. Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner), 2011 ABQB 415 (CanLII), the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench has determined that portions of the Personal Information Protection Act (Alberta)…
Category: Laws
Wednesday in Congress: Updating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
The hearing entitled “Cybercrime: Updating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to Protect Cyberspace and Combat Emerging Threats” originally scheduled before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary for Wednesday, August 3 at 10:00 a.m. has been rescheduled for Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Witness…
California Strengthens its Data Breach Notification Law
Joseph Lazzarotti writes: As we suspected, California’s current governor, Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown, Jr. (D), signed into law S.B. 24, which adds some additional protections to the state’s current data breach notification requirements. The champion of this law and its recent enhancements, State Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), has finally succeeded after a number of prior attempts to pass this measure…
France Introduces Data Security Breach Notification Requirement for Electronic Communication Service Providers
On August 24, 2011, France’s new law concerning electronic communications (Ordonnance n° 2011-1012 du 24 août 2011 relative aux communications électroniques, or the “Ordinance”) came into force. The Ordinance implements the provisions of the revised EU Directive 2002/58/EC (the “e-Privacy Directive”) with respect to the French Data Protection Act of 1978, the French Postal and Electronic Communications…