AI policy, data rights, platform regulation, digital infrastructure
A Privacy First approach. A model that begins with restraint. A model that treats personal data not as a corporate asset, government convenience, or inevitable byproduct of modern life, but as something powerful enough to damage freedom, dignity, fairness, safety, democracy, and personal autonomy.
The companion policy proposal, companion to this one, looked at what happens when businesses, public bodies, employers, contractors, institutions, and service providers use camera-capable wearable technology in places where people are asked to expose sensitive information.
If an organization requires you to show sensitive information, it has a duty to protect that information from unnecessary recording, whether by staff, contractors, wearable devices, background software, or nearby third parties.
Privacy cannot depend on whether someone notices a tiny light on a pair of glasses.
This proposal is designed to ensure that Canadians can see when products have been quietly reduced in size, weight, volume, or content; that governments can measure where grocery profit is actually being taken across the entire supply chain; that essential food prices are not personalized through surveillance-based pricing; and that loyalty-program members can see how their data is being collected, shared, and monetized.
If a ministry, agency, board, commission, municipality, or other public body uses AI to help draft, analyze, summarize, classify, recommend, or support a decision, the public should be able to know: