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AvAILAbLE In
legal support

InTo your ComPAny.

now everyone can have in-house counsel!

The problem:
many companies don’t have enough demand
to justify a full-time staff lawyer. They either
negotiate their contracts themselves or send it
to their outside frm.

alties (and manage risk accordingly)? Save money and risk missing something
Or does it allocate risk on the basis of important?
the previous limited “name and shame”
powers or the Commissioner? If it’s the The brighT idea:
latter, management should consider per- why can’t we bring the same support to these
forming a risk review. companies that we do for their larger cousins?
we already have excellent lawyers working for
Confdentiality Canada’s largest companies on a dedicated basis
as extensions of their in-house teams. why not
Under the previous regime, the Privacy open them up to work in smaller bites as an
Commissioner was (with few exceptions) in-house lawyer would, for everyone else?
required to keep information that was pro-
vided to it confdential. The new Act pro- The shared economy comes to law!
vides the Commissioner with the right to
make public any information that comes to The reSulT:
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Kirsten Thompson is the Co-
Lead of McCarthy Tétrault’s
National Cybersecurity, Privacy
and Data Protection Group. She
is based in Toronto. She pro-
vides privacy, data security and
information governance advice
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