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Much Ado about Privacy? How the Alberta Government's Inaction on PIPA Threatened the Act

Much Ado about Privacy? How the Alberta Government's Inaction on PIPA Threatened the Act

Over the past year, the status of Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) was in flux and closely watched by privacy experts and practitioners across Canada. In November 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v United Food and Commercial Workers, 2013 SCC 62, rendered PIPA unconstitutional, and declared it […]