ONDEMAND HR Power Lunch: Compliance with Privacy & Data Protection

Member: $20.00
Non-Member: $35.00Your price

The workplace presents particular challenges for managing individual privacy for a number of reasons, including the proliferation of technological tools that collect and process information, privacy-related risks and a changing legal landscape.

In this presentation we will review new & emerging laws that affect privacy in the workplace, examine reasonable expectations of employment privacy, and explore privacy & cybersecurity risks.

Learning Objectives:

• This presentation will address three topics in employment privacy from a legal and practical perspective.
• The session will provide an understanding of the laws applicable to employee privacy and the emerging laws that may soon change the legal landscape.
• Participants will explore and develop an understanding of reasonable expectations of privacy and privacy practices in the workplace.
• Finally, participants will also learn about privacy & cybersecurity risks and best practices for mitigating those risks.

Speaker Bio:

Matin Fazelpour

Matin is a privacy and cybersecurity lawyer in BLG's national Privacy and Data Protection group. He is a senior associate admitted to the Ontario bar who practices out of the firm's Toronto offices. Matin began his legal career working for Ontario's provincial privacy regulator. He then joined a labour and employment law firm where he supported private and public sector employers with privacy, information technology and cybersecurity matters. After a brief period as in-house counsel to a cybersecurity firm, Matin returned to private practice, joining BLG. Matin regularly advises on employment-related privacy issues as well as regulatory compliance, cybersecurity, record retention, access to information, human rights, health, and related matters.