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Tag Archives: canadian competition law
Advertising & Privacy: The Future is Here: U.S. Federal Trade Commission Publishes Facial Recognition Technologies Report
“In the 2002 film Minority Report, Steven Spielberg imagined a world in which companies use biometric technology to identify us and serve us targeted ads. Ten years later, that vision is coming closer to reality. Having overcome the high costs and poor accuracy that once … Read the rest of this entry »
Advertising Events: Advertising Standards Canada (ASC): The Truth About Privacy: Canada and Beyond – November (Toronto & Montreal)
Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) will be hosting two upcoming seminars on privacy in Toronto and Montreal entitled “The Truth About Privacy: Canada and Beyond”. According to the ASC, the seminars are based on a recent McCann study on how Canadian and worldwide consumers think about … Read the rest of this entry »
Key Tips to Successfully Running Contests (Sweepstakes) in Canada
CANADIAN CONTEST RULES/PRECEDENTS Do you need contest rules/precedents for a Canadian contest? We offer many types of Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents and forms (i.e., Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents to run common types of contests in Canada). These include precedents for random draw contests (i.e., where … Read the rest of this entry »
Key Canadian Competition Law & Advertising Compliance Rules
I have been doing quite a bit of compliance work lately, and have been seeing a wide range of compliance by companies and associations, ranging from no compliance or guidelines whatsoever to full competition law compliance programs that follow the Competition Bureau’s recommended elements in … Read the rest of this entry »
CRTC Issues First New Canadian Anti-spam Legislation Guidelines
CANADIAN CASL (ANTI-SPAM LAW) PRECEDENTS Do you need a precedent or checklist to comply with CASL (Canadian anti-spam law)? We offer Canadian anti-spam law (CASL) precedents and checklists to help electronic marketers comply with CASL. These include checklists and precedents for express consent requests (including … Read the rest of this entry »
New Publications: Canadian Competition Law Review (Fall 2012)
The National Competition Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association has published a new issue of its Competition Law Review (which is now also available in a searchable format online). This new issue includes articles on The Competition Act of 1986, Competitor Agreements: Interpreting Criminal … Read the rest of this entry »
The Intersection of Competition/Antitrust & Intellectual Property: “A Dozen Times to Call Your Antitrust Lawyer”
Ok I concede that lawyers are great at making (or at least trying) to make their clients and others believe that the sky is falling, so that you better retain them to advise you or else the world (and their clients’ businesses) will surely end. … Read the rest of this entry »
Misleading Advertising Class Action Brought Against Google in British Columbia
In a curious, short and plucky pleading filed yesterday in the British Columbia Supreme Court, a Sunshine Coast British Columbia plaintiff has commenced a punitive damages action against Google for allegedly violating Canadian privacy, misleading advertising, criminal, intellectual property and tort laws in relation to … Read the rest of this entry »
