Federal parties look poised to use new law to fight B.C. privacy regulations, court documents indicate

The position taken by Canada’s three largest political parties is not going to increase ‘confidence in the political system and those who are acting in it,’ says privacy advocate Vincent Gogolek.
Disclosure to victims can outstrip an offender’s right to privacy

For a government agency to claim that they cannot disclose information for privacy reasons is not an excuse that is either acceptable or defensible today.
Canada’s AI bill needs to catch up to get ahead of the curve

MPs and committee members have the summer to think about how they can better modernize our approach to governing AI.
Improving Bill C-27, and fighting cyber threats facing Canada

Addressing concerns about privacy rights and their impact on joining the digital economy needs an approach involving government, industry, and civil society.
Canadians’ digital safety calls for strong whistleblower and security researcher protection

When crafting digital policies to protect Canadians, the protection of whistleblowers and public interest researchers has been a major blindspot.
Necessary but not enough: Canada’s proposed new private-sector privacy law

Advances in technology and changes in business models have altered the role of data and how value is extracted from it.
How government can restore public confidence in our privacy rights

If the government truly wants to show Canadians that our privacy rights matter, it needs to pass strong data protection laws as soon as possible.
The ground rules for the industrial adoption of AI

The government is co-ordinating programs and policies to ensure that AI is developed safely and responsibly in Canada for Canadians.
AI IQ: safeguarding elections requires more oversight to thwart voter manipulation, say expert, Senator

Federal parties’ resistance to creating uniform privacy policies leaves voter information vulnerable to election interference by foreign actors who could feed it into generative-AI tools, says ISG Senator Colin Deacon.
Bill C-27 sacrifices consumer privacy for business innovations

More regulation is not always better regulation, and keeping the status quo is certainly preferable to a radically worse privacy framework that further tilts the power in favour of the private sector.