On the recordJune 17, 2026
The new privacy bill is pretty explicit that if in collecting information, the harms outweigh the benefits, then it will contravene the act.
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Evan Solomon
Liberal Party of Canada
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thestar.comThe new privacy bill is pretty explicit that if in collecting information, the harms outweigh the benefits, then it will contravene the act.
On the implications of the new privacy bill.
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It’s very easy to say just ban using personal information to give personal pricing, because we have to be super careful that we don’t want to penalize people who are members of a rewards program.
In the forthcoming days, I will be releasing our updated privacy legislation which will update 25-year-old privacy legislation.
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Canada’s consumer privacy laws are 25 years old. They were written before the iPhone. It was a different time, before AI, before deep fakes.