Canadian Privacy Law: The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)

Dominic Jaar, Legal Counsel, Ledjit Consulting, Inc., Canada

This white paper provides a general overview of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”), and discusses both the privacy requirements imposed by that Act as well as the rules governing the use of electronic documents that it sets out.

Dominic Jaar (djaar@ledjit.com) is an e-discovery and legal technology expert. He is the president and legal counsel of Ledjit Consulting and has recently been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Centre for Court Technology (www.linkedin.com/in/dominicjaar). He speaks throughout North America (www.ledjit.com/conferences/) and is a prolific writer on many legal and technology issues. He is frequently quoted in the press as an expert on electronic information (www.claimid.com/dominicjaar). Mr. Jaar is on the editorial board of Sedona Canada and was in charge of drafting the French version of The Sedona Canada Principles on E-discovery. He is also a member of The Sedona Conference’s working groups 1 (USA) and 6 (International). Mr. Jaar is the co president of the Montreal Bar Association Technology Advisory Liaison Committee with the Quebec courts and is the president of the Law Practice Management and Technology section of the Canadian Bar Association. He is on the ABA Techshow planning board and is a board member of the Canadian IT Association (www.it-can.ca). Furthermore, Mr Jaar is the founder and organizer of Leg@l.IT, Canada’s premier conference on legal technologies (www.legalit.ca). Mr. Jaar is a member of Guidance Software’s advisory board. Prior to founding Ledjit, Dominic Jaar worked as a commercial litigator at Bell Canada’s legal department. Besides pleading cases for Bell, he advised his clients on electronic discovery, electronic information management, compliance and retention policies. Prior to moving in-house, Mr. Jaar worked as a commercial litigator at Borden Ladner Gervais where he specialised in technology related matters. He is a member of the Quebec Bar. He graduated from Laval University after studying at Western University (Common Law) and Aix-Marseille III (International and European Law).

Ledjit Consulting was founded to help corporations and law firms better manage their information while acquiring the capacity to handle electronic discovery in-house. With a team of lawyers, IT specialists, project manager and paralegal, Ledjit supports its clients in the development of policies and procedures during all the information life cycle, the restructuring their IT infrastructure, the implementation of information management technologies and the identification, preservation, collection, processing, review, production and presentation of electronic evidence.