‘Tech giants need to follow our laws,’ Poilievre says after privacy watchdog finds OpenAI broke Canadian privacy rules

Provincial and federal privacy watchdogs say their investigation concluded OpenAI was not compliant with federal and provincial privacy laws. Heritage Minister Marc Miller said 'AI, like any other platform for that matter, has to respect the privacy of Canadians.'

Canada's Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne. An investigation from provincial and federal privacy watchdogs concluded OpenAI broke Canadian privacy laws, and regulators found the tech company gathered 'vast amounts' of personal information without adequate safeguards.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MARLO GLASS

May 6, 2026

Canada’s privacy watchdog has found OpenAI did not follow Canadian privacy laws when it trained the highly popular ChatGPT tool on a massive trove of Canadians’ personal information that was collected without their knowledge.

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