Alex Cameron

Alex Cameron is an associate in the firm's Privacy and Information Protection Group and Technology and Intellectual Property Group. His practice focuses on a broad range of corporate commercial litigation and legislative compliance matters, including privacy, access to information, copyright, contracts and licensing, trade-marks, domain names, trade secrets and confidential information, and the preservation and discovery of electronic information in litigation.

In 2007-2008, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada commissioned Alex to author drafts of a landmark privacy law book titled Leading by Example: Key Developments in the First Seven Years of PIPEDA. Published in 2008, Leading by Example reviews leading findings and cases under Canada's national data protection law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). The book is designed to help businesses comply with the requirements of the Act as interpreted by the growing body of cases and findings under the Act. Alex was the only outside counsel involved in the drafting of the book.

Alex has broad courtroom experience, having appeared at various levels of court for motions and trials. He also has experience in alternative dispute resolution.

Alex has regularly published papers, taught upper year and graduate law courses and given presentations at conferences in many of his areas of practice. Alex is presently pursuing a doctoral degree in law with a focus on privacy, intellectual property and technology design and development.

Select examples of Alex's recent Representative Experience, Presentations, and Publications are listed below.

Selected Experience

• Eastmond v. Canadian Pacific Railway, 2004 FC 852
• Hermès Canada Inc. and Hermès International S.A. v. John Doe, Vancouver Registry S054602 (18 August 2005).

News

• Privacy law and Compliance
• Alex Cameron featured in Nymity's "Interviews with Experts" on the topic of privacy issues in litigation and e-discovery

Publications

• Podcast of Financial Institutions Seminar: "Legal and Regulatory Developments Affecting Financial Institutions”
• Alex Cameron Involved in Authoring New Book for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Presentations

• What's All the Hush-Hush About? Privacy and Civil Procedure: Current Issues and Cases You Need to Know
• Monitoring and Surveillance of an Organization's Employees

Membership/Affiliations

• Executive, Canadian Bar Association, National Privacy & Access Law Section
• Member, The Sedona Conference WG7: Sedona Canada
• Member, Canadian IT Law Association
• Member, International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) 

Community Involvement

• Intern, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington, D.C. (2004)
• Guest Instructor, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (2006)
• Director, UBC Law Alumni Association (2000-2003)
• Former Executive, Corporate Counsel Section, Canadian Bar Association
• Former Supervising Lawyer, UBC Law Students' Legal Advice Program
• Security Manager, Tissot/ UCI Mountain Bike World Cup (2001)
• Former Vice President, Board of Directors, Little Mountain Neighbourhood House Society