Technology Is Not Neutral
- July 28, 2018
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Facebook’s stock price took a 20% tumble this week. In an article titled Does Facebook’s plummeting stock spell disaster for the social network? published in the July 26,…
Democracy and Cybersecurity
- July 14, 2018
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On June 5, 2018, Professor Jack Goldsmith of Harvard Law School and Stuart Russell, a visiting fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University, published a Hoover Institution essay titled Strengths Become Vulnerabilities: How A Digital World Disadvantages The United…
Tireless and Absolute
- June 30, 2018
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On June 22, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States released the 5-4 opinion in Carpenter v United States, 585 US _ (2018) holding that a warrant is required for law enforcement to obtain cell site location information (CSLI)…
Too Good for the Neighbourhood
- June 16, 2018
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
The exclusion of unlawfully obtained evidence from a criminal trial in Canada is governed by s 24(2) of the Charter of Rights. Evidence obtained in a manner that infringed a Charter right shall be excluded if its admission in the…
Privacy and Black Tech
- May 31, 2018
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On May 28, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union became law aiming to standardize the protection of personal data across Europe. But it is not a panacea. The new GDPR permits member states to enact derogations…