AccessPrivacy Monthly Call: The Privacy Law Year in Review

In this special edition of the Monthly Privacy Call, the partners from Osler’s national Privacy and Data Management group covered critical developments from 2025 that shaped the privacy law landscape across Canada. 

During the 90-minute webinar, Adam Kardash, Éloïse Gratton, Joanna Fine, John Salloum, Rosario Cartagena, François Joli-Coeur and Adam LaRoche discussed, among other topics: 

• key privacy litigation developments. 
• the state of privacy and data legislative reform, federally and across Canadian provinces, including the increasing focus on data sovereignty considerations;
• new guidance from privacy regulatory authorities on topics such as anonymization, biometrics, and youth privacy;
• practice themes and regulatory expectations regarding security incident response, access requests, and the intersection of privacy and AI;
• enforcement trends related to Canada’s anti-spam legislation; and
• key privacy litigation developments.