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House Hansard - 174

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 28, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 174 - Mar/28/23
Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins—James Bay, NDP)
  • Mar/28/23 1:55:12 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-27 
Mr. Speaker, I have great respect for my colleague and great interest in the issue of making privacy a fundamental human right. One of the shocking things we found with the last bill was from the Privacy Commissioner. He ruled that the company Clearview AI had broken Canadian law by allowing all manner of photographs of Canadian families, individuals and children to be sold on a market with facial recognition technology. He called that out as illegal but told us that under the new law, it would be almost impossible for him to go after Clearview AI because his rulings could be overturned by a board the Liberals will appoint above him. We trust our Privacy Commissioner and we need to protect privacy. I want to ask my hon. colleague why he thinks the Liberals are undermining privacy at this time.
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Context: House Hansard - 174 - Mar/28/23
Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins—James Bay, NDP)
  • Mar/28/23 3:51:51 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-27 
Madam Speaker, I had the great honour of working across party lines in 2018 on issues of privacy. The idea that citizens somehow opt in through terms and conditions has to be debunked. I never gave Gmail the right to read my mail. I never gave Google the right to listen in on my phone. The terms and conditions are a fundamental problem. The question is whether we limit the power of surveillance capitalism to gather data. What data should they be allowed to gather and what should they not be? It really has to come down to dealing with very, very superpowerful corporations. It is not like my data is in the cloud in this little box. Their ability to take everything we do and track us needs to be limited. To my colleague: Would the Conservatives support putting limits on the amount of data that is collected by the tech giants?
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