Canada:
Social Media vs. Privacy And Personality Rights
05 March 2020
Gardiner Roberts LLP
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Privacy in the News
- Toronto Sidewalk Labs
- Amazon Alexa
- Facebook
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- US $550 million class action
- 23andMe
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- Drug development using DNA of
clients
Classic Legal Issues
- Canada's Constitution
- Section 8
"Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable
search or seizure."
- Expectation of privacy
- Motor vehicle / personal
searches
- Hotel rooms
- Telephone communications
- Jones v. Tsige (2012 Ont.)
- Improper access by one bank employee
of banking and personal information of another bank employee
- Invasion of privacy
- Publicly placing in false light
- Yenovkian v. Gulian (2019
Ont.)
- Public disclosure of embarrassing
private facts
- Appropriation of a person's name
or likeness
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