Accordingly, these changes do not focus on policing individual Canadian posts. Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault said personal social media posts would not be covered by the new rules. The government says the purpose of the changes is to bring streaming platforms like Netflix into the regulatory framework that currently applies to traditional radio and television stations. New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh said his party supports the bill’s main content, which is that companies like Netflix need financial support when they broadcast Canadian content, just like other companies. traditional radio-television stations are doing. Janet Yale, chairwoman of the legal review committee in the fields of telecommunications and broadcasting, said the bill was necessary for the cultural industry. Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault said authorities want social media platforms to make a fair financial contribution to Canada’s cultural industry, just as Canadian companies are doing and helping artists Canadian doctors can reach the public, such as on a YouTube suggested list. At the end of February 2021, Mr. Kevin Chan, who is in charge of public policy of Facebook in the Canadian market, confirmed that this technology “giant” is willing to pay fees to Canadian publishers to publish news. ie on its platform. According to Chan, Facebook is ready to negotiate licensing agreements with Canadian news publishers, after making a similar commitment in Australia. The payment plans will be added to existing programs to support Canadian journalism, Chan said, adding that Facebook wants to invest more in the news system in the North American country.

Facial recognition technology. Photo: https://towardsdatascience.com/ According to the Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Ottawa, in a recent speech to the Canadian House of Representatives, Daniel Therrien, Canada’s Privacy Commissioner, said that bill C-11 is not enough to protect people from identity technology. face and need to include “significant modifications”. This measure proposes to amend private sector privacy laws. Regarding facial recognition technology, Mr. Therrien mentioned US technology company Clearview AI. In February 2021, Daniel Therrien’s office, along with three provincial privacy commissioners, concluded that Clearview AI violated Canadian privacy laws by providing facial recognition software. for the police. What’s interesting is that Clearview AI’s (New York-based) software works by comparing photos with a massive stockpile of billions of photos the company has amassed, collected from various sources. popular social media sites without the consent of individuals. “While we found that Clearview’s practices violated Canadian privacy laws, the company refused to follow our recommendations, such as removing photos of Canadians,” said Mr Therrien. Meanwhile, the new administrative penalty regime in C-11 is not applied to such violations of the law. Therrien noted that the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is investigating whether online website Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek (based in Montreal) violated Canadians’ privacy rights. MindGeek is accused of regularly sharing videos of child pornography and sexual assault, as well as content that was filmed/or posted without the subject’s consent. Within the framework of the bill, for the most serious violations, fines could be up to 5% of revenue or CAD 25 million (whichever is greater). These measures have been assessed by Canada’s Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development as the strongest penalty framework among the world’s Group of Seven (G7) privacy laws. Therrien recommends that when there is a conflict between commercial goals and protecting privacy, the privacy of Canadians should take precedence.