by Jillian Friedman | Oct 13, 2015 | Articles
State surveillance programs spell serious consequences for business – could Canada be next? Last week the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the highest EU court, issued a judgment in Case C-362/14 that invalidated the Safe Harbour Decision that heretofore...
by Jillian Friedman | Apr 14, 2015 | Articles
Some big news came out of Twitter late Friday night. The social media behemoth announced it will be cutting off “fire hose” access to its data and will no longer licence its stream of half a billion daily tweets to third party data resellers. Here on out Twitter will...
by Jillian Friedman | Apr 14, 2015 | Articles, Uncategorized
Worry that the state is abusing its powers through surveillance of its citizens has been a ubiquitous and powerful theme in contemporary political discourse. Most recently it manifests around the Harper government’s Anti Terrorism Law Bill C-51 that would grant...
by Jillian Friedman | Apr 13, 2015 | Articles
The latest news in privacy law is derived from what has become a unique, if not quirky gift. A do-it-yourself at home genetic testing kit that allows you to “get to know you”, your health and your ancestry. Several businesses currently offer the service - a...
by Jillian Friedman | Feb 20, 2015 | Articles
Jillian Friedman, principal attorney at Friedman Law, is actively working to promote equity crowdfunding and is part of a team that recently launched a not-for-profit organisation called Equity Crowdfunding Quebec (Financement participatif en capital Québec). This...
by Jillian Friedman | Dec 5, 2014 | Articles
The last week of October saw the crypto-currency community seized by the dread of government crackdown as rumours spread that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) had turned their attention to the crypto 2.0 world. The panic was, unsurprisingly,...
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