Canadian Technology & IP Law

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

Following a series of hearings this fall, a Parliamentary Committee has recommended that the Canadian government revise Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) to clarify a number of key provisions, and that the government and its enforcement agencies... Read more

Michael Decicco, associate practising in the Corporate and Technology Groups, outlines the different business models in the blockchain market. (1 minute, 16 seconds)   > See all Stikeman Elliott multimedia content  ... Read more

Darin Renton, partner practising in the Financial Products & Services Group, discusses the steps on how securities regulators determine if a coin or token is a security. (1 minute, 50 seconds)   > See all Stikeman Elliott multimedia content... Read more

Ramandeep Grewal, partner practising in the Corporate Group at Stikeman Elliott, touches on what regulators are looking at from a federal level, anti-money laundering concerns, compliance issues and securities regulation. Ramandeep provides guidance on... Read more