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Wednesday, 04 March 2026 09:20
BC Court of Appeal decision in Clearview AI saga is a win for privacyWritten by Teresa Scassa
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has ruled that the BC Privacy Commissioner’s enforcement order against Clearview AI is both reasonable and enforceable. Clearview AI is a US-based company that scrapes photographs from the internet, including from social media websites, to build a massive facial recognition database which it offers as a service to law enforcement (very broadly defined). At the time complaints were first lodged with Canadian privacy commissioners, the database held over 3…
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The Department of Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED) has released the results of the consultation it carried out in advance of its development of the latest iteration of its AI Strategy. The consultation had two components – one was a Task Force on AI – a group of experts tasked with consulting their peers to develop their views. The experts were assigned to specified themes (research and talent; adoption across industry and government; commercialization…
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