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Monday, 03 November 2014 13:01
Quebec Court Awards Damages for Violation of Privacy on Google StreetviewWritten by Teresa Scassa
In an interesting decision from the small claims court of Quebec, Google has been held liable for violating the plaintiff’s privacy rights after an image of her sitting on her front steps appeared on Google Streetview. In Grillo v. Google Inc., the plaintiff, Ms Grillo, testified that she had decided to sit on her front steps briefly one day, while on vacation. She was checking her messages on her smart phone, when she noticed the…
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Monday, 03 November 2014 11:20
The Reasonable Expectation of Privacy and Your Car's Airbag SystemWritten by Teresa Scassa
Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the data recorded by your car’s airbag sensing diagnostic module (SDM)? Did you even know your car has an SDM? Two recent court cases highlight important privacy issues related to this technology – and by extension to technology embedded into other consumer products that is capable of recording user information. Both R. v. Hamilton from the Ontario Supreme Court and R. v. Fedan from the BC…
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Electronic Commerce and Internet Law in Canada, 2nd EditionPublished in 2012 by CCH Canadian Ltd.
Intellectual Property for the 21st CenturyIntellectual Property Law for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Approaches
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