SENECA COLLEGE             Business Intelligence Research Analyst Program
B.I.T.   704 COPYRIGHT, PATENTS, PRIVACY Issues & related Legal Issues
The subject explores legal issues and the political environment that would effect the ability of an organization to acquire business intelligence and protect against various risk and threat situations, including corporate espionage. Safeguards organizations implement to protect intellectual assets. Competitor patent issues, patent trolling, clearance searches. Email filtering and employee monitoring issues in a Canadian legal context.
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Internet Law in Canada, 3rd Edition by Geist
ISBN 1-55322-047-1		 Security Policies and Procedures by Sari Greene
ISBN 0-13-186691-5		 Electronic Commerce: Security, Risk Management, and Control
by Greenstein ISBN 0-07-229289-x
using chapters 3, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 using chapters 12, 13, 14, 15 using chapters 2,5
Official Course Outline  witiger.com/senecacollege/BIT704/courseoutlineBIT704.htm
As Taught by Prof. Tim Richardson School of Marketing and e-Business, Faculty of Business
last updated 2007 Nov 20
Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4
The influencing Environments within which Competition is intensified
6 Environments
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Bill C6 (the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act of 2001)
Privacy Issues in Canada

Regulatory Environment
Greenstein Chpt 5
  - (copy given to students)
Geist Chpt 11
Geist Chpt 12
Regulatory Compliance
Green Chpt 12, 13, 14
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Political Environment effecting I.T. Crime
 o Federal (Canada & U.S.)
Privacy Commissioner
RCMP, CSE
(U.S., FTC)
 o Provincial (regional)
 o Municipal (local)

also gov't handling of
- cybersquatting 
- consumer protection
- ID theft
- spyware

Stakeholders
-CSA Cdn Standards Assoc.
-Cdn telcos
-CIRA
-ICANN

 Gov't & Cryptography issues
Greenstein Chpt 5
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Greene
Chpt 12 Finance Sector
Chpt 13 Healthcare Sector
Chpt 14 Critical Infrastructure
Chpt 15 SME's
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Jurisdiction on the Internet
Geist - Chpt 3
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Regulation of Online Commercial Speech
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Geist - Chpt 12
Employee monitoring 
- email filtering
re: privacy issues

cookies

Competitor Intelligence
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 Patents
Geist - Chpt 18
Patent trolling
R.I.M.
- clearance searches
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Domain Names and Trademarks

- how to buy one
- marketing issues

Geist - Chpt 15
Domain Name Disputes
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICANN
Canadian Internet Registration Authority CIRA
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Intellectual Property
Geist - Chpt 16
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Organizational Liability
 o Employee liability
 o customer liability 

Consumer Protection
Geist - Chpt 22
the Cdn Standards Assoc.
www.csa.ca
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Hackers Videos
Video 1 from TLC documentary
Video 2 from Dateline documentary
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 Gov't response
to intrusion and threats

Government Involvement in criminal aspects of business intelligence and corporate espionage

 o carnivore
 o carnivore retired

TPS, OPP, CSIS, CSE, RCMP
FBI - Carnivore, Echelon

 
Sept 11 Tue room 300
Sept 13 Thu online
Sept 18 Tue lab 562
Sept 20 Thu online
Sept 25 Tue lab 562
Sept 27 Thu online Assgnmnt 2
Oct 2		 Oct 2
Oct 9
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Oct 22 - 26 study week
- no classes
Oct 30.		 Nov 6th,  8th, no class
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Nov 20
Nov 27		 Nov 27
Dec 4
Dec 10 - 14 exam week.
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GRADING BREAKDOWN
 
 
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