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Comment: Canada's data protection, AI legislation should elevate privacy to fundamental right, new commissioner tells Parliament

By Mike Swift ( June 8, 2023, 19:53 GMT | Comment) -- Privacy should be a fundamental right in Canada, the nation’s new privacy commissioner has argued repeatedly this year, as it is in Europe and a growing number of other countries. Philippe Dufresne, who assumed leadership of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada last year, has called for the proposed privacy legislation before Parliament, Bill C-27, to be expanded to make privacy a fundamental right. The slow-moving legislation is drawing criticism for omitting that change, and for lack of detail on AI rules.Privacy should be a fundamental right in Canada, the nation’s new privacy commissioner has argued repeatedly this year as he lobbies lawmakers to build that quasi-constitutional protection into their slow-moving overhaul of the country’s two-decade-old commercial privacy law....

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