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Body of evidence courts embracing technology
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:44:34 +0000
For the London Free Press - July 21, 2008
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The image of lawyers going to court carrying boxes of paper is slowly becoming obsolete. That paper is being replaced by electronic files.
To encourage the use of electronic documents in court, the Canadian Judicial Council recently published a document drafted by the judges technology [...]
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Privacy Commissioner commissions research into public surveillance
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:18:53 +0000
The Federal Privacy Commissioner has initiated some research into public surveillance. From the Privacy commissioner’s blog:
We?ve decided to commission research into how developments in public surveillance techniques and technology are affecting Canadians, individually and as a society. First off, Queen?s University will be examining the proliferation of surveillance cameras across the country, and report on [...]
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SCC decision on priviledge and Privacy commissioner powers
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:00:31 +0000
The Supreme Court of Canada has just stated that a privacy commissioner cannot look at documents over which solicitor client priviledge has been claimed in order to determine if priviledge has been properly claimed. This is in the highly anticipated (well, at least for privacy lawyers) decision in the Canada (Privacy Commissioner) v. Blood Tribe [...]
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passphrase vs password
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:44:15 +0000
Lets face it - passwords are a pain. If they are complex enough to be effective, they are hard to remember. And the number of passwords we need seems to grow daily. I believe biometrics is the ultimate answer - but for now, passphrases seem to be the easiest way to remember effective passwords.
Depending on [...]
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Former employee pays price for fake website
Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:28:56 +0000
For the London Free Press - July 14, 2008
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For 16 days in November 2004, customers of Inform Cycle Ltd. were shocked and embarrassed to find unexpected content on what they believed to be Inform Cycle’s website.
Inform Cycle’s actual site was at informcycle.ca. A month prior, a disgruntled former employee of Inform Cycle [...]
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Lets shock and immobilize air passengers
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:24:28 +0000
From the “you’ve got to be kidding department” is a post on the Canadian Privacy Commissioner’s site that says US Homeland Security is interested in a bracelet that air passengers would wear that contains their boarding pass and identity info, tracks them, and can administer a remotely triggered shock to immobilize the passenger.
Why don’t we [...]
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SCC comments on blogging
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:46:03 +0000
Slaw has a post that has a quote from a just released Supreme Court of Canada case where the decision refers to blogging. The context is a libel case where the judge talks about the “astounding quantity and variety of commentaries on issues of public interest, ranging from political debate in the House of Commons, [...]
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Michael on the Canadian iPhone debut
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:33:05 +0000
The iPhone is available in Canada this week. Michael Geist’s article on the unique Canadian issues is worth a read, especially in light of the rumours that Apple has shorted Canadian supply due to Canadian pricing issues, and the tens of thousands of people who signed up in protest of the rates.
It will be interesting [...]
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Hands off LSAT students? fingers
Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:01:54 +0000
For the London Free Press - July 7, 2008
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A recent decision by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada found that taking finger/thumb prints from those writing the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is a privacy breach and must be stopped.
The LSAT, a standardized test provided by the Law School Admission’s Council (LSAC), must [...]
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Please update your eLegal Canton RSS feed
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:16:33 +0000
We are in the process of moving this blog to Wordpress, which means that the old RSS feed won’t work. So please redo your RSS feed by clicking on the orange icon in your browser.
There are a few unfinshed details that we are still working on - hopefully we will get the blog the way [...]
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