Melissa Lukings and Arash Habibi Lashkari

** Melissa Lukings is a senior JD student in the Faculty of Law at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and former graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) holding a BA in Linguistics. She has a particular interest in cybersecurity and privacy law, criminal law, and grassroots community organizations - specifically those focusing on equality and inclusion, human rights, violence prevention, harm reduction, and / or relating to equal and equitable access to justice. **** Dr. ARASH HABIBI LASHKARI is a senior member of the IEEE and an Associate Professor in Cybersecurity at York University. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick (UNB), and research coordinator of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC). He has over 23 years of academic and industry experience. He has received 15 awards at international computer security competitions - including three gold awards - and was recognized as one of Canada’s Top 150 Researchers for 2017. He also is the author of ten published books and more than 100 academic articles on a variety of cybersecurity-related topics. In 2020, he was recognized with the prestigious Teaching Innovation Award for his personally-created teaching methodology, the Think-Que-Cussion Method. He is the author of 12 published books and more than 100 academic papers on various cybersecurity-related topics. He is the founder of the Understanding Cybersecurity Series (UCS), an ongoing research and development project culminating with a varied collection of online articles and blogs, published books, open-source packages, and datasets tailored for researchers and readers at all levels. His first two books in this series are entitled "Understanding Cybersecurity Management in FinTech - Challenges, Strategies, and Trends" and "Understanding Cybersecurity Law and Digital Privacy - A Common Law Perspective," published by Springer in 2021. The first online blog series of UCS entitled "Understanding Canadian Cybersecurity Laws", was recognized with a Gold Medal at the 2020 Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPA). His research focuses on cyber threat modeling and detection, malware analysis, big data security, internet traffic analysis, and cybersecurity dataset generation.

Articles by Melissa Lukings and Arash Habibi Lashkari

Understanding Canadian Cybersecurity Laws: Measuring up — Outlining existing federal cybersecurity legislation in Canada, the UK, Australia, and the US (Article 8)

In this article, we will outline the relevant national privacy and cybersecurity-related laws currently in effect in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, as fellow common law countries.

Understanding Canadian cybersecurity laws: Deep, dark, and undetectable – Canadian jurisdictional considerations in global encrypted networks (Article 7)

In this article, we will discuss the legal issues relating to encrypted online criminal activities, specifically those involving or facilitated by the use of Dark Web browsers and cryptocurrencies.

Understanding Canadian cybersecurity laws: Peer-to-peer privacy protection — ‘Intrusion upon seclusion’ and the protection of intimate images (Article 6)

In this article, the sixth in our Understanding Canadian Cybersecurity Laws series, we will highlight the common law tort of intrusion upon seclusion and the relatively new criminal offences pertaining to cyberbullying and the sharing of intimate images.

Understanding Canadian cybersecurity laws: ‘Insert something clever here’ — Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (Article 5)

This article in the Understanding Canadian Cybersecurity Laws series will focus on Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), which is the federal law dealing with spam and other electronic threats

Understanding Canadian cybersecurity laws: Interpersonal privacy and cybercrime — Criminal Code of Canada (Article 4)

In this article, we will venture into the realm of Canadian cybersecurity laws as they relate to interpersonal privacy, data breaches, network attacks, and other computer-related activities of a criminally malicious nature.

Understanding Canadian cybersecurity laws: Privacy protection in the modern marketplace — PIPEDA (Article 3)

In this article, we will focus on the laws regulating private sector access to, use of, and disclosure of personal information as established in the PIPEDA.

Understanding Canadian cybersecurity laws: Privacy and access to information, the Acts (Article 2)

The Privacy Act and the Access to Information Act were both implemented by the Canadian federal government in 1985 and have acted as a starting point for more recent legislation and privacy laws.

Understanding Canadian cybersecurity laws: The foundations (Article 1)

Canadian cybersecurity and data protection legislation is governed by a specific set of statutes and common law rules which are gradually evolving as the world we live in continues to change at an ever more rapid pace

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