The federal privateness watchdog is warning Canadians concerning the rising menace of surveillance capitalism — using private info by giant companies.
In his annual report tabled as we speak, privateness commissioner Daniel Therrien says state surveillance has been reined in considerably lately.
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In the meantime, he says, private information has emerged as a extremely worthwhile asset and nobody has leveraged it higher than the tech giants behind internet searches and social media accounts.
Therrien says the dangers of surveillance capitalism have been on full show within the Cambridge Analytica scandal, now the topic of proceedings in Federal Court docket as a result of his workplace didn’t have the ability to order Fb to adjust to its suggestions.
As well as, the legislation didn’t enable Therrien to levy monetary penalties to dissuade this sort of company behaviour.
Therrien, in his final 12 months as privateness commissioner, is encouraging the federal authorities to make a number of enhancements to deliberate laws on private-sector data-handling practices when it’s reintroduced in coming weeks.
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