Ontario moves towards introducing new privacy law

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Given global trends in the development of privacy laws and enforcement, Canada and several provinces are looking at modernizing their respective privacy regimes. Ontario’s new proposed privacy law, which would govern commercial activities more broadly than current legislation (i.e., our federal legislation, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and Ontario’s health privacy … Continue reading

Ontario to introduce enhanced privacy legislation for healthcare data

By Roger Watkiss (CA) on June 11, 2015 Posted in Regulatory response

The Government of Ontario announced that it intends to introduce amendments to the Province’s Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) that, if passed, would strengthen privacy rules with respect to health records, make it easier to prosecute offences, and increase fines for privacy breaches.… Continue reading

Ontario Court of Appeal finds patients’ common law privacy rights not preempted by statute; allows class action to proceed

By on February 25, 2015 Posted in Dispute resolution and litigation, General

In a recent case involving a breach of patients’ privacy rights — Hopkins v Kay,[i] — the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that a proposed class action could proceed based on allegations of violation of patients’ common law privacy rights, concluding that those rights were not preempted by the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA). … Continue reading