The federal Liberals plan to introduce privacy legislation today to give Canadians more control over their personal data and introduce new rules for the use of artificial intelligence.
The bill, to be presented by Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, aims to fulfil his mandate to advance the federal digital charter, strengthen privacy protections for consumers and provide clear rules for fair competition in the online marketplace.
The legislation is expected to revive some threads of a previous bill, introduced by the Liberals in late 2020, that did not become law.That bill would have required companies to obtain consent from customers through plain language, not a long legal document, before using their personal data. The bill would have armed the federal privacy commissioner with order-making powers, including the ability to demand that a company stop collecting data or using personal information, and to recommend that a planned tribunal impose a fine.
Daniel Therrien, who long pushed for reforms as federal privacy commissioner, criticized the previous bill as "a step back overall" from the current law.
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