Publications & Presentations

Presentation

Key Regulatory Issues in AI

Lisa R. Lifshitz Ontario Bar Association Career Accelerator Program

Jun 1, 2023

Presentation

Negotiating Contracts for ‘as-a-Service’ Offerings

Lisa R. Lifshitz ITechLaw Association Toronto ’23 World Technology Law Conference

May 25, 2023

Article

Seven Tips for Better Technology Services Agreements

Lisa R. Lifshitz Lexpert In a perfect world, all technology vendors would present their clients with balanced legal agreements that perfectly represent the commercial deal bet...

Mar 13, 2023

Presentation

Cloud Computing and other Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Information

Lisa R. Lifshitz Osgoode Certificate Program - Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

Feb 21, 2023

Presentation

The Coming New Wave of AI Laws

Lisa R. Lifshitz ABA Webinar

Dec 6, 2022

Article

Canada’s First AI Act Proposed

Lisa R. Lifshitz ABA Business Law Today On June 16, 2022, Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry (“Minister”) tabled the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (the “AI Act”), C...

Jul 13, 2022

Torkin Manes LegalPoint

Cybersecurity in M&A Transactions

Lisa R. Lifshitz and Roland Hung It’s no secret that the world is becoming increasingly data-driven, and the business world is no exception. The ability of a business to effectively s...

Jul 7, 2022

Presentation

Important Developments in Privacy & Cybersecurity Laws in Canada

Lisa R. Lifshitz, Cameron McMaster and Roland Hung Torkin Manes Webinar

Jun 30, 2022

Torkin Manes LegalPoint

Proposed Privacy Bill Introduces Fines and New Requirements for Private Organizations

Lisa R. Lifshitz, Roland Hung and Cameron McMaster After a hiatus of almost two years, the Canadian Government has finally recommenced its long awaited overhaul of existing federal private sector priva...

Jun 21, 2022

Torkin Manes LegalPoint

Legislative Update: Bill C-26 Introduces New Requirements for Federally Regulated Industries

Lisa R. Lifshitz and Cameron McMaster On June 14, 2022, the Minister of Public Safety, Marco Mendicino, introduced into Parliament the first reading of Bill C-26, An Act respecting cyberse...

Jun 17, 2022

Article

Legal iGaming Comes to Ontario!

Lisa R. Lifshitz ABA Business Law Today On April 4, 2022, Ontario became the first province in Canada to regulate online gambling, legalizing what was previously a grey market in this space....

May 5, 2022

Torkin Manes LegalPoint

Blockchain: Opportunities and Legal Considerations

Roland Hung and Lisa R. Lifshitz Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that is most widely known for its application with Bitcoin. Despite this claim to fame, blockchain techn...

Apr 20, 2022

Presentation

Getting Up to Date on New Data and Privacy Laws: Critical Federal and Provincial Developments for Technology Lawyers

Lisa R. Lifshitz 2021 CanTech Conference

Oct 20, 2021

Presentation

Cloud solutions for dispersed workforces: Understanding your risks and benefits

Lisa R. Lifshitz Legal Tech Summit Canada

Jun 29, 2021

Presentation

Cloud Solutions for Dispersed Workforces: Understanding Your Risks and Benefits

Lisa R. Lifshitz Key Media LegalTech Summit (June 29, 2021) (Toronto)

Jun 24, 2021

Book

Co- author, "Same, Same, but Different: Uncommon Law(s) When Doing Business in Canada"

Lisa R. Lifshitz and Cameron McMaster Director’s Technology Handbook: Tips and Strategies for Advising Corporate Directors (published by the American Bar Association in May, 2021)

May 12, 2021

Presentation

Cloud 3.0: Best Practices for Privacy and Security

Lisa R. Lifshitz Osgoode Professional Development, Privacy & Cybersecurity Law Summit (March 10, 2021) (Toronto)

Mar 10, 2021

Article

Think before you click! New cyberthreat assessment published

Lisa R. Lifshitz Canadian Lawyer In November 2020 the Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity (“Cyber Centre”) issued its second National Cyberthreat Assessment document (the “Report”), whi...

Dec 16, 2020

Article

Proposed Canadian Privacy Bill Introduces Fines and New Requirements for Private Organizations

Lisa R. Lifshitz and Cameron McMaster Business Law Today The Canadian government’s long-awaited overhaul of existing federal private-sector privacy legislation finally arrived on November 17, 2020, with the ...

Dec 2, 2020

Torkin Manes LegalPoint

Proposed Privacy Bill Introduces Fines and New Requirements for Private Organizations

Lisa R. Lifshitz and Cameron McMaster The Canadian Government’s long awaited overhaul of existing federal private sector privacy legislation finally arrived on November 17, 2020 with the f...

Nov 19, 2020

Article

Attention, mall shoppers: your data is being collected!

Lisa R. Lifshitz Canadian Lawyer On Oct. 28 the Federal Privacy Commissioner and the Privacy Commissioners of Alberta and British Columbia (collectively, Regulators) unveiled findings...

Nov 18, 2020

Article

Legal and Ethics Checklist for AI Systems

Lisa R. Lifshitz and Cameron McMaster The SciTech Lawyer Despite the significant benefits that AI systems can offer users and society in general, any organization deploying an AI system must protect core val...

Nov 3, 2020

Article

Class dismissed: CRTC finds OneClass in violation of Canada’s anti-spam legislation

Lisa R. Lifshitz Canadian Lawyer On September 30 the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), which is tasked with enforcing Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation ...

Oct 21, 2020

Article

Clouds without borders: the dangers of non-localized cloud contracts

Lisa R. Lifshitz Canadian Lawyer It’s an exciting time in your organization. Your business has completed its due diligence and has found the perfect service provider, located in anoth...

Sep 23, 2020