French Abstract: Comment favoriser la transparence tout en respectant la vie privée des parties concernées? L'arrivée des cyber technologies ravive intensément la problématique. Faut-il encore reconnaître que face à une revendication accrue de transparence s'érigent les devoirs de...

French Abstract: « Ce qui a été présenté comme une occasion d'accorder davantage de liberté ne doit pas dégénérer en un déni de la dignité et des droits humains fondamentaux » [notre traduction]1.On a assisté à un mouvement régulier de reconnaissance des mécanismes de protection...

The privacy tort’s coherent development away from the narrow “right to be left alone,” inhibited by connotations of physical space and proprietorship, may be well informed by comparative inquiry. Accordingly, this article undertakes to shine the light of comparative analysis on the...

Technology plays an incontrovertibly central role in contemporary judicial work and lives, both on and off the bench. Along with tremendous benefits, it imports substantial new challenges that increasingly impact upon courts and judicial ethics. And yet, notwithstanding its growing relevance,...

In R. v. Cole, the Supreme Court of Canada observed that it would “leave for another day the finer points of an employer's right to monitor computers issued to employees”. At first glance, the decision is only indirectly applicable to private sector employees. However, as Charter values are...

What happens when judges, in light of their role and responsibilities, and the scrutiny to which they are subjected, fall prey to a condition known as the “online disinhibition effect”? More importantly perhaps, what steps might judges reasonably take in order to pre-empt that fate,...