Law For Information Technology

03/26/2014

Designing Privacy Protections into Computer Systems:

How do you design privacy & security into a new or re-designed computer systems? How do you take advantage of the benefits of big data while protecting privacy? This presentation delves into these issues.

To view the presentation given by George C. Eyre, Designing Privacy into Computer Systems which was given at Federated Press' Managing Privacy Compliance on March 3 & 4, 2014, click here:
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12/18/2013

Is your Smart TV spying on you? Is your cable company spying on you?

A UK blogger discovered that his new LG Smart TV was sending back unencrypted information about what TV shows he was watching and the names of files in his USB card attached to his TV to LG. “In fact, there is an option in the system settings called "Collection of watching info:" which is set ON by default. This setting requires the user to scroll down to see it and, unlike most other settings, contains no "balloon help" to describe what it does.” He turned this switch off; however, it had no effect! The LG Smart TV was still spying on him.

Do you have a smart TV or are you thinking of buying? Is it spying on you? Also, is you cable company spying on you? More to come at www.law4it.com

12/18/2013

Are You Ready For Canada’s Anti-Spam Act Which Comes In Effect On July 1, 2014

Do You Conduct Business Online?

If you conduct business online, you should review your terms of use, privacy policies and other legal agreements and marketing processes to ensure compliance with Canada’s new Anti-Spam law which is expected to come into force next year. The penalties are high ($1m for individuals and $10M for business) and the Act is very complex and the definitions are not as precise as they should be.
Read more... at www.law4it.com

Law For Information Technology George C. Eyre, Law Offices provides practical advice and legal solutions to start-ups, consultants and to companies in the I/T, multimedia and other areas. We register and prosecute Canadian Trade Marks and assist our clients with protection around the globe. George C...

08/19/2013

I/T Independent Contractors and the Income Tax Act - Personal Service Business:

The recent practices of Canada Revenue Agency’s assessment of incorporated consultants and a recent case, Gomez Consulting Ltd. v. Queen cause great concern for incorporated independent contractors.

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07/25/2013

Ontario Judge Finds Non-Competition Clauses Unenforceable

The Judge in Eagle Professional Resources v. MacMullin, 2013 ONSC 2501, held that there was no “specific, detailed and first-hand allegations” provided by the employer, Eagle Professional to show that ex-employees had breached the non-competition clause in their agreements. The Judge also held that the non-competition clause was unenforceable: “I also find that the spatial features of the non-competition clause are too broad. There is simply no geographic limit. I note that one of the two industry standard employment agreements referred to by Mr. Dee has a geographic limit of 50 kilometers. A non-competition clause without a geographic limit is prima facie unreasonable. “

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05/10/2012

Canada's Anti-spam Act to be Implemented in 2013
According to Industry Minister Christian Paradis, Canada’s Anti-spam Act ( Copyright Modernization Act and Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation ) will be implemented in 2013 giving business time to prepare for it. For more details on this Act, please review to our previous post on it.

11/16/2011

The Supreme Court of Canada Rules on when linking to defamatory statements is defamatory.

The Supreme Court of Canada recently held that linking to someone else’s website does not constitute defamation: Crookes v. Newton, 2011 SCC 47 (CanLII). For more info go to www.law4it.com

10/11/2011

Trade-mark and brand owners have until October 28, 2011 to block domains on .### top level domain:

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved an adult rated top level domain .### for adult entertainment on the Internet. It has signed an agreement with the ICM Registry to manage the .### domain level. For more info, go to www.law4it.com

Law For Information Technology George C. Eyre, Law Offices provides practical advice and legal solutions to start-ups, consultants and to companies in the I/T, multimedia and other areas. We register and prosecute Canadian Trade Marks and assist our clients with protection around the globe. George C...

08/03/2011

In the recent eHarmony decision, the Canadian Privacy Commissioner provided some insight into how web sites with accounts that contain personal information should handle the deactivation and deletion of accounts. She wrote that: "PIPEDA requires that organizations develop guidelines and procedures with respect to the retention of personal information, as well as maximum and minimum retention periods.” For more info go to: www.law4it.com

04/26/2010

With the explosion of Web 2.0 (Thin Computing, Cloud Computing, Saas Computing and Social Networking) privacy and security is under increased scrutiny by the media. The recently completed Managing Privacy Compliance conference addressed privacy and security issues and compliance. To view the presentation given by George C. Eyre, E-Business Security & Privacy Issues at Managing Privacy Compliance (Federated Press) which was held March 22 & 23, 2010 go to my website www.law4it.com

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