Effort to pass new Canadian privacy, AI laws faces extended hold
By Mike Swift ( February 19, 2025, 01:27 GMT | Insight) -- Following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's announcement last month that he would resign and the ensuing decision to prorogue Parliament, legislation that would update Canada's 25-year-old Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and establish a new regulatory framework for generative artificial intelligence will likely have to be restarted from scratch.The plodding pace of Canada’s efforts to revamp and extend its data protection, content moderation and artificial intelligence laws faces a new delay: The prorogation of Parliament following the prime minister’s resignation means a likely necessary reboot of that legislation....
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