CLTS Faculty members Dr. Teresa Scassa, Dr. Amy Salyzyn, Prof. Jena McGill and Dr. Suzanne Bouclin have publicly released “Improving Privacy Practices for Legal Apps: A Best Practices Guide”, a new handbook for developers and practitioners.
Professors Salyzyn, Scassa, McGill and Bouclin have now completed their research, funded by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), to create a set of best practices about privacy for legal apps used by the public. Their final report to the OPC titled “Improving Privacy Practices for Legal Apps: A Best Practices Guide”, was submitted in March 2019 by the OPC.
These researchers have also written a peer reviewed article that examines the challenges of drafting a model of privacy sectoral code for legal apps used by the public and the lessons learned in that process: "Developing Privacy Best Practices for Direct-to-Public Legal Apps: Observations and Lessons Learned", forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology.