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As part of our blog series on the proposed changes to
Canada s private sector privacy laws, this post examines the
proposed consent rules under the new regime for processing personal
information.
As noted previously, Canada s private sector
privacy laws will change with the introduction of Bill C-11. Named
the
Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020, Bill C-11
seeks to modernize Canadian privacy legislation through the
introduction of two acts: the
Consumer Privacy Protection
Act ( CPPA ) and the
Personal Information and
Data Protection Tribunal Act, which would create a new
Privacy commissioners find Clearview AI broke laws, plea for more powers against illegal surveillance.
Bryan Carney reports on privacy, technology and freedom of information and is Director of Web Production at The Tyee.
You can follow his very occasional tweets at @bpcarney. SHARES Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien joined with counterparts in three provinces in sounding alarms about police use of face recognizing and cataloguing artificial intelligence.
Photo by Adrian Wyld, the Canadian Press.
Controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI broke Canadian laws and had at least 48 accounts in agencies across the country, most of them police forces, federal and provincial privacy commissioners said today.
Summary and Implications
Canada s proposed new privacy legislation, the
Consumer
Privacy Protection Act (CPPA), contains a number of new
requirements regarding how organisations collect, use and disclose
personal information. As well, CPPA contains significant fines, up
to $25 million or more, in the event an organisation breaches its
privacy obligations.
CPPA now provides individuals with the right to sue
organisations for damages the individual has suffered as a result
of a non-compliance with the legislation.
As franchise systems continue to provide more personalized
experiences for their customers through their loyalty programs,
online ordering apps and their Internet platforms, they are
collecting increasing amounts of personal information. As such, it