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McCarthy Tétrault LLP

About McCarthy Tétrault LLP

McCarthy Tétrault is a Canadian law firm that offers a full suite of legal and business solutions to clients in Canada and around the world. They deliver integrated business, litigation, tax, real property, and labour and employment solutions through offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montréal, Québec City, New York and London, UK.

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IIROC Publishes Notice Regarding Ransomware Attacks

The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada has published a Cybersecurity Notice on Ransomware, which flags a recent uptick in ransomware attacks on IIROC firms and provides guidance on how IIROC firms should prevent, detect, respond to and recover from ransomware attacks.

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CPPA: De-identifying provisions

The Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CPPA) will make substantial changes to Canada’s privacy law. In this post I examine the significant proposed changes to the law as they relate to personal information that has been “de-identified”.

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Clarification on cross-border transfers of personal information

On November 16, 2020, the federal government introduced the Consumer Privacy Protection Act (“CPPA”), which, if enacted, will provide organizations with greater clarity regarding their obligations when engaging third party service providers to process personal information outside Canada. In this blog, we explore how the core concepts of cross-border transfers of personal information for processing are evolving after a brief period of major uncertainty.

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