Government’s vision of social media, AI and privacy regulation: Super-regulator that strips power from Privacy Commish and leaves five people to set the rules, enforce, investigate, litigate, and advocate with their own rules of evidence and less independence.
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Michael Geist
My first post on Bill C-36 and the seismic shift in Canadian privacy. The bill marks the end of the Privacy Commissioner's role in private-sector privacy law and the arrival of a super-regulator with astonishing powers to regulate online speech and privacy.
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In the last act of an incredibly intense digital policy stretch, the government today tabled new private sector privacy legislation in the form of Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data A...
