Canadian Privacy Law

Canadian Privacy Law: Cases and Materials is the first casebook to comprehensively examine the legal framework governing privacy in Canada, including private law, statutory law, and the Charter. Organized into four parts—Privacy Torts for Digital Harms, Statutory Privacy in the Information Economy, Privacy in Law Enforcement, and Special Topics—it addresses a wide variety of issues such as: reputation and the tort of disclosure, online speech harms, privacy tort of intrusion, statutory privacy under AI, privacy class actions, the right to be forgotten, high-tech policing, the public/private divide, digital searches and seizures, health information and employee privacy, and mass surveillance under international law. 

Through this casebook, Ignacio Cofone examines Canadian privacy law through cases and comparative materials, drawing on seven years of teaching at McGill, and offering a resource designed for law students, practitioners, and scholars working across PIPEDA, provincial legislation, and the Charter.

About the speakers

Dr. Ignacio Cofone is Professor of Law and Regulation of AI at the University of Oxford, appointed jointly at the Faculty of Law and the Institute for Ethics in AI (department of philosophy). He is also an affiliated fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project and an affiliated member of the Mila. Before joining Oxford, he was the Canada Research Chair in AI Law and Data Governance at McGill University, where he is currently an adjunct professor.

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Dr. Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy, a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and a Full Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa, with cross-appointment to the School of Information Studies.