Ticketmaster violates privacy laws
Back in April, the Privacy Commissioner released a summary of the Ticketmaster case. At issue was Ticketmaster’s practice of disclosing personal information of customers to third parties for marketing purposes. The problem was that there were no opt-out provision provided if customers did not want their personal information used for this purpose. If you tried to purchase tickets […]
Employees vs. Independent contractors
There’s a distinction between employees and independent contractors. If you’re a business owner, you would usually prefer to have independent contractors rather than employees. When services are provided by a true independent contractor, you don’t have to provide reasonable notice of termination and you can’t be sued for wrongful dismissal.
But there’s no magic in labelling someone as an ‘independent […]
CIRA softens privacy policy
Last month, I talked about the new privacy policy being adopted by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). The policy, which was to have taken effect on June 10th, would have blocked efforts by trademark holders to directly contact individual domain name registrants who were violating their trademark rights. But CIRA has backed off on […]
