Blog: Legal Requirements
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Canada's New Digital Charter and Changes to PIPEDA
The Government of Canada has created a Digital Charter. It provides Canadians with new rights and expectations about how businesses will treat their personal information. In conjunction with the Digital Charter, flowing from its ten principles, there will also be some changes to the Personal Information Processing and Electronic Documents Act...
Complying With Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive
Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive (the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market) prohibits content-sharing platforms from displaying unlicensed copyrighted content on behalf of their users. This piece of legislation became EU law as of June 7, 2019 and was to be implemented by June 7, 2021. We're...
Data Breaches and Your Business
Data breaches have always been a stress point among businesses big and small. In our world's increasing dependence on online services, storage and accessibility, data breaches are becoming a bigger problem than ever before. In 2018 alone, the numbers of people said to be affected by data breaches are in...
Privacy Law Compliance for New Start-Ups
As the law develops, many businesses get caught up in expensive and grueling compliance efforts. Consider the scramble to comply with the GDPR when it passed in May of 2018. Despite the two-year transition period, many people were tearing their hair out right up until the deadline day, trying to jettison...
Complying with Nevada's New Internet Privacy Law: Nevada SB 220
Legislators all over the world are passing increasingly strict internet privacy laws. Senate Bill 220 (Nevada SB 220 - full text available here) is Nevada's answer to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Nevada SB 220 is likely to affect your business if you...
Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR)
Any business operating in the competitive environment of the UK needs to consider the best way of reaching potential customers. Marketing is no longer a matter of considering which newspaper your next customer is likely to be reading and coming up with a memorable slogan. Increasingly sophisticated technology allows advertisers...