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Canada's privacy commissioner calls for legislative reform

( June 10, 2021, 16:13 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Privacy Commissioner of Canada Daniel Therrien has called for a “rights-based foundation” for federal privacy laws. He also said they should include the privacy principles of necessity and proportionality to ensure that practices that could be privacy invasive are carried out for a sufficiently important objective, and that they are narrowly tailored so as not to intrude on privacy rights more than is necessary. Finally, he argued the laws should clarify that the concept of publicly available personal information does not apply to information where an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy. The statement follows the commissioner’s investigation of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s use of facial recognition technology to conduct hundreds of searches of a database compiled illegally by Clearview AI.Statement follows in full. ...

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