Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic
Canada's First and Only Public Interest Technology Law Clinic
Oct 7, 2026
New report on privacy drift in cloud and AI services
The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) has published our report "Beyond the Initial Agreement: How Privacy Drift Affects Modern Third-Party Contracting".
Supreme Court Denies Voltage Leave to Appeal, Ending the Reverse Class Action
The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed, with costs, Voltage Pictures' application for leave to appeal the Federal Court of Appeal's decision in Voltage Pictures, LLC v. Salna, 2025 FCA 131.
Emotion recognition technology purports to infer emotions based on external signals. Privacy law has traditionally protected information about persons; can it protect the inner life of persons?
A recent proposed class action lawsuit against the airline JetBlue has brought the controversial concept of surveillance pricing to the forefront of the travel industry. The complaint, filed in a New York federal court, alleges that the airline uses sophisticated tracking tools such as browsing history, location, and device type to monitor user behavior and adjust ticket prices in real-time. The filing claims that JetBlue tracks customers searching for fares to raise the pric
When you click “delete”, is your data really gone? Generative AI is changing the way we think about privacy and data deletion. While traditional systems remove stored records, AI can continue to reflect information it has learned during training, raising new questions about what meaningful deletion should require.
