By Sheena Owens ( September 4, 2019, 8:53 AM EDT) -- On May 13, 2019, the Alberta Court of Appeal clarified the limitation period for filing civil claims for privacy breaches (Moore’s Industrial Service Ltd. v. Kugler 2019 ABCA 178). This is the first time the Court of Appeal has written a decision about s. 60 of the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). It is also the preliminary decision in which the Court of Appeal confirmed that only courts, and not the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC), have jurisdiction to make a civil award for a privacy breach....