Information Technology
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February 06, 2023
Letter from the Editor: The Lawyer’s Daily is now Law360 Canada
I am excited to announce that The Lawyer’s Daily is now Law360 Canada. The decision to launch a Canadian edition of the prestigious Law360 news brand reflects our commitment to create a market-leading offering for premium legal news worldwide while maintaining local news, on-the-ground reporting and expert analysis in Canada.
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February 06, 2023
Lerners’ new firm chair Kuehl dedicated to gender parity, racial diversity and mentorship
Lerners’ newest firm chair is putting an emphasis on increasing gender and racial diversity at the firm by highlighting an intersectional issue: “choice.”
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February 03, 2023
Ontario releases Provincial Emergency Management Strategy and Action Plan
The Ontario government has released its first Provincial Emergency Management Strategy and Action Plan to help ensure citizens are “prepared for, and safe, during future emergencies like cyber security threats, pandemics or natural disasters.”
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January 30, 2023
Ontario appellants ordered to pay costs of $100K for accessing respondents’ privileged information
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has dismissed an appeal in a case in which the appellants had access to the respondents’ privileged and confidential information and copies of their email correspondence through the parties’ shared file server, finding the motion judge correctly applied Celanese Canada Inc. v. Murray Demolition Corp., 2006 SCC 36 when staying proceedings.
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January 26, 2023
Office of Privacy Commissioner finds Home Depot shared customer data with Meta without consent
Home Depot shared customers’ information with Meta without their consent, in contravention of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) said in a report released on Jan. 26.
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January 18, 2023
B.C. tribunal orders woman to pay back employer for ‘time theft’
A B.C. woman is on the hook for nearly $3,000 after a provincial tribunal ordered her to pay back her former employer for “time theft” because time-tracking software installed on her computer discovered unaccounted-for hours on her time sheets. But legal experts are saying the use of such software to determine what an employee is doing during the working day is an issue which is not going away.
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January 16, 2023
What ChatGPT can, cannot do
With the new year comes new think pieces, and ChatGPT has captured 2023’s imagination. Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT, or Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer seems to be the future of artificial intelligence (AI). At this point, where everyone toddler age and above lives their lives in a palace of screens, most understand the difference of what futurists want AI to be (an Isaac Asimov world where robots can think and perform as humans do) versus what we perceive as AI in our everyday lives (pre-filled suggestions for texts or emails, Siri, Google Home, etc.). ChatGPT appears to push the paradigm a bit closer to the futurist endgame.
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January 04, 2023
B.C. court dismisses developer’s claim of $8.1M for plugins not listed in e-learning directory
A Vancouver company cannot apply Western Australian law to an expired contract, the British Columbia Supreme Court has found in a case concerning a dispute between two software developer companies engaged in litigation in both Australia and Canada.
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January 03, 2023
Osgoode’s Raise the Black Bar program emphasizes mentorship for youth, diversity in law
“Mentorship” is the focus of the Raise the Black Bar program, an initiative launched by Osgoode Hall Law School’s Black Law Students’ Association (BLSA Osgoode) to “break down barriers to legal education for Black youth.”
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December 21, 2022
Artificial intelligence warns humans might not be able to shut it down | Alistair Vigier
What does artificial intelligence (AI) think of the ability of humans to shut it down if we want?