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Personal Privacy in a Digital Age: Examining Current Intellectual Property & Privacy Obligations

Personal Privacy in a Digital Age: Examining Current Intellectual Property & Privacy Obligations

Canadians have privacy rights associated with their personal information. This even applies when one’s personal information is held by someone else – like with hospital medical records. Patient ownership of personal data was illustrated in the 1992 Supreme Court of Canada (‘SCC’) decision, McInerney v. MacDonald, where the Court verified that despite the physician having […]