Canadian Technology & IP Law

Cybersecurity is now well established as a focus for boards of directors worldwide. The pace of developments on the regulatory and litigation fronts in 2018 and early 2019 suggests that cyber-risk management will become an even more central preoccupation... Read more

Stikeman Elliott’s Alethea Au and Victoria Hale recently co-authored the Canadian contribution to Lexology Navigator’s “Outsourcing” content hub. Written in Q&A format, this publication provides an excellent overview... Read more

Four Stikeman Elliott lawyers – Alix d’Anglejan-Chatillon, Ramandeep Grewal, Éric Lévesque and Christian Vieira – recently authored the Canadian chapter of The Virtual Currency Regulation Review, published by Law Business... Read more

Our technology law team recently published Digital Business in Canada, an easy-to-read guide to electronic commerce in the Canadian legal and regulatory context. Issues considered in this Q&A-style publication include, among others: Federal vs. provincial... Read more

You may be your brother’s keeper after all, according to Canada’s spam and malware watchdog. In a bulletin likely to send shock-waves through the digital business community, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)... Read more

Changes may be afoot to clarify the scope of Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), improve public awareness of the law’s requirements and provide greater transparency with respect to its enforcement and investigative process -- although it... Read more

Nearly 3 years after passing amendments to Canada’s federal private sector privacy law to include mandatory breach notification and record-keeping requirements, the Government has finalized some related regulations and announced that the new obligations... Read more

Stikeman Elliott lawyers Vanessa Coiteux and David Elder recently co-authored an extensive Data Security and Cybercrime FAQ. First published by Lexology Navigator in January 2018, this Q&A-style publication considers a wide range of cybercrime and... Read more

Playing catchup on 2017 developments in Canadian privacy law? Here’s a list of our Top 10: Supreme Court deals blow to choice of forum provisions in consumer contracts In Douez v. Facebook, a divided Supreme Court refused to enforce an otherwise... Read more