Former Mount Saint Vincent University professor Michael Kydd has filed a statement of claim in Nova Scotia's Supreme Court, seeking $1 million from Twitter, Bell Media (owner of CTV), the woman with whom he says he had an affair, and his former employer for defamation, breach of privacy, breach of copyright, and negligence, according to the Ottawa Citizen. He is, in part, leveraging the new privacy tort established in a case last year, and is represented by Donna Wilson, who won the case establishing that tort. The case involves a relationship with a student, who accused him of sexual assault and spread an explicit photo of him as part of the accusation. The suit claims Twitter could have created systems to stop the posting of the photo without his consent, among other claims. 
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