Privacy, Data Protection and Cyber Security

Privacy awareness – and specifically, concerns about getting private information, storing it, using it and protecting it and disclosing it – is at an all time high. The law has responded with a myriad of federal and provincial laws governing who can collect what private information, how they can use it and when they can disclose it. These laws increasingly affect the way our clients do business. McInnes Cooper has the ideal mix of credentials to provide you with advice on the privacy law issues that affect your business. Members of our Privacy Law group regularly advise public and private sector clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies to public and private health care facilities, on all aspects of privacy law including:

• Regulatory Compliance Matters, including compliance with and interpretation of privacy laws and regulations such as the Digital Privacy Act, the Personal Information and Protection of Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL)
• Cloud Computing, including privacy and regulatory matters arising from cross-border data flows, law enforcement/national security access to customer data and the adoption of cloud computing
• Cyber Security and Data Protection, including matters stemming from data breaches or other cyber security incidents
• Privacy Impact Assessments in both the public and private sectors
• Access to information, including record redaction, contracting and roll-out of integrated personal health records system and crisis response disclosure
• Cyberbullying matters, including under and related to Nova Scotia’s Intimate Images and Cyber-protection Act
• Privacy Complaints and Claims, including representation in privacy breach complaints and claims before both federal and provincial privacy commissions and in court, take-down requests and invasion of privacy and defamation claims
• Workplace privacy issues, including employee and union requests for access to  employee records, cross-border transfers of personal information, and law enforcement and national security requests for customer and employee information
• Policy matters, including preparation of privacy-related policy submissions to Canadian regulators on behalf of national and international industry associations
• Video surveillance, including in the contexts of employment, insurance, transportation and law enforcement
• Contractual matters, including contractual protection of outsourced data management