Canadian Technology & IP Law

On January 24, 2019, Canada’s Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) published the advisory Technology and Cyber Security Incident Reporting, which will be in force as of March 31, 2019. The advisory provides guidance to federally... Read more

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