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October 19, 2015 Maanit Zemel Business and Legal Issues, Competition, Corporate Administration, E-Commerce, Intellectual Property, IP, IT, Privacy and Security, Leadership and Management, Sales, Marketing and Operations, Web design and Management
Every business knows that online reviews matter. They are today’s equivalent of “word of mouth”. It is to be expected that most businesses will, at some point, receive negative reviews online. After all, unhappy consumers tend to want to share their negative experience with the world. Those negative reviews may have a great impact on the business’ financial success or failure.
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August 8, 2011 Maanit Zemel IT, Privacy and Security, Sales, Marketing and Operations
One year ago, I wrote about the Canadian courts’ trend of ordering Internet service providers or website operators to reveal the identity of anonymous bloggers, when it is alleged that the bloggers had defamed the plaintiff. A recent decision by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, suggests that, when the plaintiff is a politician, the bloggers may continue to remain anonymous.
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May 9, 2011 Maanit Zemel IT, Privacy and Security, Sales, Marketing and Operations
In a case that has gained significant media attention, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has held that the name of a 15-year-old girl, who was allegedly defamed and bullied online, should be revealed to the public.
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February 14, 2011 Maanit Zemel Finance and Accounting, IT, Privacy and Security, Sales, Marketing and Operations
There has been a lot of press in the U.S. last week over the so-called “Facebook firing case”. An employee of the…
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September 13, 2010 Maanit Zemel IT, Privacy and Security
Anyone who has been defamed online knows how devastating such experience could be to a person’s professional and social reputation. Indeed, even years later, some victims are still afraid to “google” their names, not wanting to discover an obscure link that contains the defamation.
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August 9, 2010 Maanit Zemel IT, Privacy and Security
Is your boss or co-worker getting on your nerves? Are you irritated with your neighbour? Do you feel like venting out by writing some nasty stuff about them on Twitter or on a blog? If you do it anonymously, no harm done, right?
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July 12, 2010 Maanit Zemel IT, Privacy and Security
If you operate a website with interactive capabilities, such as a chat room, a blog, or even if you provide your readers with the option of posting their comments on your website, you may be held liable by a Canadian court for defamatory comments posted by anonymous strangers on your website.
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Substantial damages awarded for defamatory social media posts
February 20, 2020 Occasional Contributors Business and Legal Issues, Defamation, Finance and Accounting, 0
The recent decision of Rook v. Halcrow, 2019 BCSC 2253 continues to underscore that social media posts are public domain and that serious censure can follow defamatory social media posts. It appears that courts are perhaps increasingly willing to award very serious damages for particularly malicious social media posts.
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