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Federal Budget Allocates Significant Funds towards Cybersecurity
On February 27, 2018, the Minister of Finance tabled Budget 2018 – Equality + Growth: A Strong Middle Class (the “Budget”) before Parliament. The Budget includes investments in several key areas of the Canadian economy, including in the area of...
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Cybersecurity: Five Guiding Principles for Boards
Data breaches and cyber-attacks continue to represent important threats to businesses of all shapes and sizes. High-profile data breaches have prompted heightened regulatory, shareholder, and public scrutiny of boardroom preparedness. While the importance of cybersecurity at the Board level may...
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Extraterritorial scope of GDPR: Do Canadian businesses need to comply?
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) will be coming into force on May 25 of this year. While the GDPR has been a hot topic for some time in Europe, it has only recently begun to hit...
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Senate Committee Report On Autonomous Vehicles Emphasizes Cybersecurity and Privacy
On January 29, 2018, the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications (the “Committee”) released a report titled Driving Change: Technology and the future of the automated vehicle (the “Report”), which highlighted key regulatory and technical issues related to driverless...
La cybersécurité au Canada : À quoi s’attendre en 2018
En 2017, à l’échelle mondiale, les cyberattaques et les atteintes à la protection des données signalées aux médias et à divers organismes de réglementation se sont multipliées sur 12 mois par rapport à 2016. Les organisations canadiennes (des secteurs public et...
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Cybersecurity: Are Social Engineering Attacks Covered Under Insurance Policies?
Cybersecurity incidents are a popular topic of coverage in the press. These incidents range from hacking into organizations that hold a large quantity of data about clients, employees, vendors and other stakeholders to duping employees to transfer funds into fraudulent...
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What GDPR Means for Canadian Businesses
The European Union’s (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”), which comes into force in May 2018, will impose significant new obligations on businesses that handle the personal data of EU residents. What is unique is that the GDPR applies...
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The Growing Importance of Privacy Compliance in Transactions
Increasingly, a key asset that organizations hold is the sensitive data they collect, use and retain about their customers, employees, and suppliers. It is therefore no surprise that data security and privacy compliance have become a top of mind consideration...
Cybersécurité : Mesures à prendre pour se protéger contre les risques cybernétiques
Au cours des dernières années, la complexité, la fréquence et l’ampleur des cyberattaques n’ont cessé d’augmenter. Les médias rapportent ce qui semble être une cyberattaque majeure presque chaque semaine. Les pirates informatiques visent des entreprises de tous les secteurs, y...
