Topic - The Courts

This is… an editorial? A thought piece? Commentary? Anyway it’s some words about the Right to be Forgotten

Posted on March 31, 2019 by allen

Have you forgotten about Simple Minds?

Hello! Let’s try something new today – me talking out of my ass. Shut up, my other posts are not me talking out of my ass. They are a combination of me recapping an important court decision or newsworthy item AND me talking out of my ass. This post will just be that second part. Fun! But there is some context, lemme explain.

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Posted in: Commentary, Regulatory regime in Canada, The Courts
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Let’s read this important Supreme Court privacy case from last year!

Posted on January 31, 2019 by allen

Nice houseSo I must have had a busy December or something? I guess I was grading papers and getting drunk. ANYWAY, December brought an important privacy & computer & internet case from the Supreme Court, so before it gets way too far in the past, let’s take a look!

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Privacy Commissioner heads to Federal Court for fun and determination of Google’s profits

Posted on October 31, 2018 by allen

guilty guilty guilty

Don’t worry, I don’t understand the headline either. But I’ll explain. There was a HUGE development in privacy / internet circles [/checks calendar] about 3 weeks ago, that will possibly have some HUGE implications for a lot of things. Am I being vague? Seems like it! OK, let’s figure this out.

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Supreme Court makes a statement (or five) about defamation on the internet and where to sue

Posted on August 31, 2018 by allen

Nice houseSo a HUGELY important internet law case came out of the Supreme Court of Canada [/checks watch] almost 3 months ago now. Hmmm. I seemed to have taken the summer off. It was just too darn hot and humid for blogging! But school starts next week (hello McGill LAWG 534 readers!) so I better get my ass back in scholastic mode.

More importantly (and truthfully), I have been dreading writing about this case, even though it’s kinda interesting, and it’s my job to write about these things, and it’s my job to understand these things so I can teach them to the youths. Lemme explain.

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Google did not have the best month in the Courts

Posted on April 30, 2018 by allen

Sure, everyone is talking about Facebook this month (and last month, and probably many months before that, who knows, I barely pay attention to this stuff), but did you know Google is having its own issues in April, but in the courts? Let me lexplain what’s happened.

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This was a bad month to be an internet pirate in Canada

Posted on February 28, 2018 by allen

ARRRGGHH

Arrrrrghh you a pirate? It’s all bad news from here.

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You can go ahead and send those text messages to your drug dealer (maybe)

Posted on December 19, 2017 by allen

Well that’s good news I guess? Two very important cases came out of the Supreme Court a couple of weeks ago. And while technically they are not internet law cases, and I write a blog about internet law, they are huge privacy cases. And I teach privacy! So I guess I should read them and write about them.

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California Court to Supreme Court of Canada: F*** You (I’m paraphrasing)

Posted on November 19, 2017 by allen

Nice houseIn July of 2014, I wrote a post that was entitled This hugely important Google case will be going on for a while…. Well it’s more than 3 years later, and it’s still going on. I am psychic!

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