Liberals to introduce privacy reform bill expected to address AI, data – National
Liberals to introduce privacy reform bill expected to address AI, data – National
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Publish Date: 2026-06-15 14:14:00
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The federal government on Monday will introduce its long-promised update to Canada’s private-sector privacy law, a bill that the federal artificial intelligence strategy and federal officials have hinted will address some of the major privacy risks posed by AI.
Officials are set to provide details on the legislation Monday afternoon after it’s tabled by AI Minister Evan Solomon in the House of Commons.
The bill is expected to include protections for children’s data as well as measures ensuring Canadians’ data is not used for surveillance pricing by private retailers like grocery stores.
Solomon has been promising privacy reform legislation for months, and the Liberals included it within a key pillar of the federal AI strategy focused on Canadians’ safety and building trust around the technology.
“We’re looking at things like right to deletion in privacy legislation,” Solomon told reporters earlier this month. “You want to make sure children’s information is treated sensitively … (and) we’re looking at (enshrining) privacy as a fundamental right.”
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It would be the Liberal government’s third attempt to update the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) for the digital age, after introducing bills in 2020 and in 2023 that did not become law.
Since then, there have been growing concerns about how generative AI platforms like ChatGPT have used personal data to train their chatbot models.
A joint investigation by federal and provincial privacy commissioners last month found OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, engaged in “overly broad” data collection without getting Canadians’ consent.
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That investigation led OpenAI to commit to enhanced privacy safeguards and…
