Treasury Board wants to ‘modernize’ Privacy Act by legalizing more personal data reuses, sharing

It would in effect turn the Privacy Act into a data integration act where citizens have less say over use of their personal information.

Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali. This latest consultation exercise is a more of a reconfirmation of the desired legal shift to share and use more of Canadians’ personal data, writes Ken Rubin.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KEN RUBIN

April 29, 2026

The recent Treasury Board discussion paper proposes to redo the 1982 Privacy Act by legally giving its more than 250 agencies powers for personal data sharing and reuses as part of a “modernization” makeover.

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