Bill C-27 sacrifices consumer privacy for business innovations

More regulation is not always better regulation, and keeping the status quo is certainly preferable to a radically worse privacy framework that further tilts the power in favour of the private sector.

Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne, pictured in January 2023. Despite best efforts, Dufresne's office cannot monitor the data practices of every group, and average consumers do not have the savvy to identify and protest all potential privacy violations, writes Yuka Sai.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY YUKA SAI

June 7, 2023

Consumers want better protection against deceitful privacy practices of digital platforms, not privacy laws that give data-hungry groups greater discretion to escape consent obligations.

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