Information & Privacy Law

Johnstone & Cowling LLP advises employers in the public and private sector on a range of issues relating to information, data protection and privacy, including:

• the application of the Ontario Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the Ontario Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, and the requirements of those statutes
• discipline and dismissal of employees and officers where privacy interests are engaged, including discipline for inappropriate use of Facebook, Twitter and other social media
• advising on and drafting workplace and organizational privacy policies and consent forms