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Promoting Canadians' fundamental right to privacy, addressing the privacy impacts of new technologies like artificial intelligence, and championing children's privacy rights will be the priorities of the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) for the next three years. Commissioner Philippe Dufresne revealed the strategic plan Monday at the start of the annual observance of

The government of Canada has come through with more information on amendments to its proposed privacy and artificial intelligence legislation, although the…

The government of Canada has come through with more information on amendments to its proposed privacy and artificial intelligence legislation, although the exact wording in some cases isn't detailed. Whether this will be enough to satisfy business and academic critics, as well as opposition MPs, to help speed the legislation through Parliament isn't known. Committee

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne's attempt to get parliamentary committee hearings on privacy and AI legislation off to a good start has backfired, with the opposition passing a committee motion Thursday demanding he produce proposed amendments next week. The House of Commons industry and technology committee was poised Thursday to hear testimony from federal Privacy Commissioner

Canada’s privacy commissioner says the government’s proposals to modernize Canada’s federal private sector privacy law are “a step in the right direction,” but…

Canada should pass the Liberal government's proposed legislation to regulate artificial intelligence in a few weeks, 75 AI researchers and startups say in an open letter. "We ask our political representatives to strongly and urgently support AIDA (the Artificial Intelligence Data Act)," the letter says. "While it is possible to argue for improvements, we feel

What was billed by the Canadian Marketing Association as a keynote speech on the Trudeau government's proposed private-sector privacy legislation by a senior minister turned into a two-minute welcome to the CMA's annual privacy conference. Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said the proposed Bill C-27, which introduces the Consumer Protection Privacy Act, (CPPA) will "set a