CMN 2180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Extraterritoriality, Canlii, Personal Information Protection And Electronic Documents Act
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Search engines will deindex things; this doesn"t mean google will comply. The minute you have info pooled in one website and thus the search engine, ubiquity is the challenge. Right to be forgotten had to do with deindexing; not about telling 3rd-party websites to delete private information, but about search engines returning indexes in order about persons/personal info. Federal court argues that global24 broke lots of laws of pipeda (canada) Content provider, host server, other intermediaries aren"t located in canada; so it becomes an extraterritorial problem. Question becomes, when does it apply; can we apply pipeda; it applies when it deals with. ^^much of the content in globe24 is canadian; site targeted canada; harm was primarily felt in. Canada harm to a person"s privacy, reputation harm, employment harm, financial harm, Copyright act; does it apply to other countries (the situs); this captures the global nature of territorial communications.