“Canada’s consumer privacy laws are 25 years old. They were written before the iPhone. It was a different time, before AI, before deepfakes,” AI Minister Evan Solomon said after tabling the bill in the House of Commons.
Discussing the need for updated privacy laws.
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I’m not going to tell you what’s in the forthcoming legislation, except to say that I’ve been pretty clear what we’re interested in.
We are looking at things like how to combat deep fakes and giving the right to deletion.
If there’s new opportunities or new challenges, security challenges, we are going to adjust, and we are going to make sure that we have the flexibility to do so.
The new Act will not prohibit surveillance pricing outright, as does the Manitoba legislation.
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