Webinars

Canada just introduced as Bill C-11 “An Act to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act and the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts”, which will effectively replace PIPEDA. This presentation seeks to provide a high-level overview of the proposed Act, with a focus on what’s new and what’s not, and what’s GDPR and what’s simply PIPEDA redux.

Speaker

John Beardwood, Fasken LLP, Canada

As the use of open source software continues to grow, so do the number of open source licenses and the complexity of the issues. This webinar will provide an update on:

In July 2020, after years of speculation, the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Schrems II case made headlines by invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield program and calling into question other mechanisms that validate international data transfers. After the initial shock about this decision, it is time to consider what the practical solutions are for ITechLaw members’ corporate clients to keep personal data flowing internationally.

We’ve all attended a few too many GDPR and CCPA sessions that cover the same introductory ground.  The goal of this session is different: a conversation among experienced privacy and data protection lawyers about gaps and areas of tension between the two laws, and how companies can address those inconsistencies and develop programs that comply with both laws, and are flexible enough to address new data protection laws that come into effect, and emerging issues (such as the COVID pandemic) as they arise .  If you don’t already have good basic familiarity with the GDPR and CCPA, thi