On October 26 the Nova Scotia legislature quietly passed the Intimate Images and Cyber-protection Act. The bill’s smooth passage was perplexing given the noise the first attempt at such legislation generated, from its passage by the former NDP government in 2013, to its repeal two years later. The Nova Scotia Supreme Court struck down that […]
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The “colossal failure” of Nova Scotia’s Cyber-Safety Act
[Image-1] It was the first legislation of its kind in Canada, and now it no longer exists. Today the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia struck down the anti-cyberbullying law created by the province in 2013 after the death of Rehtaeh Parsons. The decision by justice Glen MacDougall ruled that the Act infringed upon Canada’s charter […]