As the line between work and home becomes increasingly blurred, the federal, British Columbia and Alberta privacy commissioners have issued joint guidelines to help organizations reduce the risks of privacy breaches with respect to employers’ data accessed from employee-owned devices (EODs), while also securing employees’ privacy rights regarding any personal information stored on EODs.…
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued, on March 5, 2015, its first Notice of Violation to Compu-Finder for violating Canada’s anti-spam law. The Notice of Violation included a penalty of $1.1 million in relation to four alleged violations based on commercial electronic messages (CEMs) that were sent to Canadian recipients without their consent, as well as CEMs in which the unsubscribe mechanisms did not function properly.
Reasonableness of the penalty
The CRTC indicated that…
