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Technology Law
Privacy Law

Dan Furst has negotiated and drafted software, trademark and technology licensing agreements, as well as the intellectual property and privacy components of larger commercial transactions. Dan has also drafted agreements governing the creation, use and commercialization of intellectual property, including strategic alliance agreements.

In his Privacy Law practice Dan has:

• Assisted clients to develop privacy and information management policies and practices;
• Advised clients on responses to access to information requests under various privacy and access laws;
• Prepared pleadings and advised clients in successful inquiries before the Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner.

Dan has served as a Commerce Officer with the Competition Bureau in Ottawa. He has advised on building marketing campaigns and assisted clients in clearing mergers before the Competition Bureau.

• Admitted to the Alberta Bar (2005)
• Admitted to the Ontario Bar (2002)
• LL.B. (Osgoode Hall, 1999)
• B.A. (Distinction, McGill, 1996)

• "Private Sector Privacy and Data Security Law in Canada – A High Level Overview" – presented to Public Forum Webinar " Stakeholder Privacy Protection and Data Security in the U.S. and Canada" (2010)
• "Alberta Amends Its Private Sector Privacy Law" (2009)
• “Understanding the Business of Copyright” – co-presented with Justice Kristine Eidsvik of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench (2007)
• “Copyright: Basics for Freelancers” – Presentation to Canadian Public Relations Society (2007)
• “Grabbing Privacy by the Tail: Taming the Tiger” – Presentation to The Centerpoint (2007)
• “The Traditional Licensing Model” – Presentation to Ethics, Creativity and Copyright Conference, Banff, Alberta ( 2006)
• “The Changing Face of Public Sector Outsourcing: Public Sector Privacy and the USA Patriot Act” – co-authored with Stephen Burns in Internet and E-Commerce Law in Canada (2006)

• Board Member, McGill University Alumni Association of Southern Alberta