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Canadian Privacy Law: The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)

Abstract

This white paper provides a general overview of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”), and discusses both the privacy requirements imposed by that Act as well as the rules governing the use of electronic documents that it sets out.

Authors

Patrick Zeller
Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Guidance Software, USA

Patrick Zeller is Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Guidance Software Inc. where he performs in-house legal functions, supervises the legal and regulatory team, and works with corporate law departments of other companies seeking to implement defensible in-house eDiscovery processes in the US, Canada, UK, and Europe. He writes and speaks regularly on topics related to eDiscovery and digital evidence and the intersection between law and technology. Prior to joining Guidance Software, Patrick practiced litigation at Seyfarth Shaw LLP where he co-chaired the firm's Electronic Discovery Practice Group. He practiced commercial litigation, with a strong emphasis on technology issues and electronic discovery. Patrick served as an Assistant Attorney General and Director of the Computer Crimes Institute for the State of Illinois where he prosecuted a wide variety of technology related crimes and supervised a multi-jurisdictional computer forensic laboratory. During this time, he was named a Computer Crimes Fellow by the United States Department of Justice and served as a trial attorney for the Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, where advised prosecutors and law enforcement agents on how to conduct Internet and high-tech criminal investigations. Patrick has lectured extensively on Internet and high-tech crime at numerous law enforcement training venues nationwide, including the FBI Academy. He is widely regarded as one of the leading minds in technology and the law; his specialties include eDiscovery, internal investigations, computer intrusion, economic espionage, online fraud, intellectual property and trade secret issues. Patrick is an Adjunct Professor and Distinguished Lecturer at The John Marshall Law School’s Information Technology and Privacy Law LLM program, where he teaches the “eDiscovery, Computer Evidence and Computer Forensics” class. He also holds several certifications in computer forensics, is a member of the Sedona Conference and presides over the Midwest Chapter of HTCIA High Technology Crimes Investigatiors Association in 2008.

Dominic Jaar
Legal Counsel, Ledjit Consulting, Inc., Canada

Dominic Jaar (djaar@ledjit.com) is an e-discovery and legal technology expert. He is the president and legal counsel of Ledjit Consulting and has recently been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Centre for Court Technology (www.linkedin.

Companies

Guidance Software

Guidance Software is recognized globally as the world leader in eDiscovery and other digital investigations. Our EnCase® software solutions provide the foundation for corporate government and law enforcement organizations to conduct thorough and effective computer investigations of any kind, including intellectual property theft, incident response, compliance auditing and responding to eDiscovery requests—all while maintaining the forensic integrity of the data. We also offer customized services in eDiscovery, incident response, computer forensics, evidence presentation and trial testimony, utilizing a team of former law enforcement professionals, eDiscovery and litigation support experts, information assurance specialists and project managers who have front-line, hands-on experience in all areas of digital investigations. Guidance Software trains over 6,000 corporate, law enforcement and government professionals annually in the areas of computer forensics, enterprise forensics, eDiscovery, and computer incident response. Courses and materials are offered in a variety of languages in Guidance Software facilities worldwide, through partners and online. Our customers are corporations and government agencies in a wide variety of industries, such as financial and insurance, technology, defense, energy, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and retail. More than 100 of the Fortune 500 and over half of the Fortune 50 use EnCase solutions, including: Allstate, Chevron, Ford, General Electric, Honeywell, Mattel, Northrop Grumman, Pfizer, UnitedHealth Group, Viacom and Wachovia. Guidance Software is recognized by industry analysts such as Gartner, Forrester and IDC as a worldwide leader in digital investigations.

Ledjit Consulting, Inc.

Ledjit Consulting was founded to help corporations and law firms better manage their information while acquiring the capacity to handle electronic discovery in-house. With a team of lawyers, IT specialists, project manager and paralegal, Ledjit supports i

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