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New Directions In Judicial Biography: More Humane, More Transnational, More Comparative, Philip Girard
New Directions In Judicial Biography: More Humane, More Transnational, More Comparative, Philip Girard
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Canadian Privacy Law And The Post-War Freedom Of Information Paradigm, Jonathon W. Penney
Canadian Privacy Law And The Post-War Freedom Of Information Paradigm, Jonathon W. Penney
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An overemphasis on technology among Canadian privacy scholars has neglected other important historical factors in the development of privacy law. The chapter aims to help fill that void through a case study examining how a broader Post War paradigm, centred on freedom of information, impacted on Canada's most important early privacy laws, including Canada's first privacy law - Part VI of the Canadian Human Rights Act (1977); the federal Privacy Act (1983); and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)(2000). The case study suggests that despite wider concerns about privacy when each law was enacted, those concerns were …