Privacy laws intersect with AI
- Privacy Law In Canada
- Dec 30, 2024
- 1 min read
Data is the new gold – corny line however seemingly true. AI models can be valuable if they are accurate. You may recall the answer to the question posed to an AI bot – how many rocks should people eat? Anyway, to be valuable the Bot has to be accurate. It becomes accurate by digesting data. In order to be accurate about something or someone, it needs data on that thing or person. So it needs our personal information in order to know our likes, preferences or habits.
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner is investigating one such company using a Bot on its customers. In an official statement, “Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne welcomes a commitment from LinkedIn to voluntarily pause its practice of using the personal information of Canadian members to train its generative artificial intelligence (AI) models “.
Privacy laws require various levels of consent in order for a business to profit from personal information. There are numerous factors on what is ‘personal information’ and the level of consent for the different types of information. Some information is more ‘personal’ than others, and the law therefore provides greater protection.
