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Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, Ph.D.

About Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, Ph.D.

Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD, was called to the Ontario Bar in 2002 and has since been a member of the Law Society of Ontario. Christina worked as an editor with First Reference between 2005 and 2015 working on publications including The Human Resources Advisor (Ontario, Western and Atlantic editions), HRinfodesk, and First Reference Talks blog discussing topics in Canadian Labour and Employment Law. Christina obtained her Professional LLM Specializing in Labour Relations and Employment Law from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in 2013, and recently earned her PhD in Law at the University of Western Ontario on October 23, 2020 in the area of privacy in the workplace.

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Québec Bill 64: Assent on September 22, 2021

On September 21, Québec’s Bill 64, An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information, passed, and the date of assent was September 22, 2021. Most of the provisions come into force two years after the date of assent, with a few exceptions where some provisions become effective in one year.

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Plenty of phishing going on

Data breaches costed companies $4.24 million per incident on average–the highest cost in the 17-year history of the report. It turns out that security incidents became more costly (10 percent more than last year) and more difficult to contain due to drastic operational shifts during the pandemic.

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All about data scraping

Recently, the topic of data scraping has been in the news. But what is it? How do people do it? Why would anyone want to do it? Are there any dangers associated with it? And what can be done to deal with it?

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