Ryan Williams at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On March 21st, 2022. See this statement in context.

March 21st, 2022 / 12:25 p.m.

Conservative

Ryan Williams Conservative Bay of Quinte, ON

Thank you.

You had a 2021 paper called “Weak privacy, weak procurement: The state of facial recognition in Canada”. You talked about biometric data protection and how Canada's privacy laws are failing compared to the rest of the world.

We've heard of the benefits of the General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, from a witness in a previous meeting. Would adopting a GDPR-style protection be better for Canada's privacy rights?

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