Ignore privacy commissioner, says PI lawyer

After a growing number of complaints against insurance companies, Canada’s privacy commissioner released guidelines to protect people against covert video surveillance, characterizing it as an “extremely privacy-invasive form of technology” to be considered “only in the most limited cases”. “Covert surveillance is an intrusive act and if there are other means to resolve a dispute, we believe they should be explored first,” assistant commissioner Elizabeth Denham has told the Canwest News Service . But lawyer Norman Groot, speaking for the Canadian Association of Private Investigators, says PIs needn’t be “deterred” by her views.

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