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About David Canton

David Canton is a business lawyer and trade-mark agent with Harrison Pensa LLP in London, Ontario. David's practice focuses on technology issues and technology companies. David is co-author of Legal Land Mines in E-Commerce published by McGraw-Hill, writes a column called TechWatch for the London Free Press and the Canoe.ca Technology news, and blogs at canton.elegal.ca. 

Posts by David Canton

Feds Crack Down on Use of Word “banking” by Non-Banks

Supreme Court of Canada Overrides Forum Clause in Facebook Agreement

CASL Private Right of Action Suspended – but CASL Is Still Here

Ransomware – Fix It Before You Wanna Cry

Self Driving Cars – Privacy Points to Ponder

CASL Class Actions Are Looming

Lessons From the United Passenger “re-accommodation”

Did Transport Canada Just Ground the Canadian Hobbyist Drone Market?

Researchers Play Along With “Tech Support” Scam Calls

Privacy Commissioner Posts New Case Summaries

Trump Administration to Roll Back Net Neutrality

Trump’s Executive Order on Foreigners Strips Privacy Protection for Canadians

The End of Cloud Computing

10 Things to Watch for at the Intersection of Tech and Law in 2017

Even Santa Needs to Get It in Writing

SCC Renders Practical Privacy Decision on Mortgage Information

Big Data Privacy Challenges

Should Lawyers Learn to Code?

AI First Is Taking Over From Mobile First

Cloud Computing: It’s All Good – or Mostly Good

CASL Still Confusing

CRTC Advisory on CASL Consent Record Keeping

Privacy by Design Is Crucial to Avoid IoT Disasters

Rio Olympics Social Media Guidelines

Raspberry Pi Workshop at UnLondon Makerspace

Three Business IP Scams to Watch For

Emerging Tech – Potentially Awesome and a Privacy Quagmire

Enemy of the State – Still Topical

Panama Papers – Points to Ponder

E-Mail – More Secure Than a Postcard