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Privacy protections platforms

Here's what the 2019 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal
  • Create a Digital Charter, overseen and enforced by a more powerful Privacy Commissioner.
  • Place new regulations for large digital companies, overseen by a newly-created Data Commissioner.

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data portability, so that people can take their data from platform to platform;

withdraw, remove, and erase basic personal data from a platform;

know how personal data is being used, including knowing who has access to it, supported by a national advertising registry where companies would have to report with whom your data is being shared or sold, with the ability to withdraw consent at any time;

review and challenge the amount of personal data that a company or government has collected;

data security, compelling those who use personal data to take proactive steps to adequately protect it;

be informed when personal data is breached, and to be compensated accordingly; and

be free from discrimination online, including bias and harassment.

From Forward, retrieved 2019-10-01.

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Conservative
  • Ensure companies collecting electronic data from Canadians have plain language terms of use agreements.
  • Form an expert committee with industry leaders to define binding cyber security standards for critical infrastructure sectors and penalties for non-compliance.
We don't have any Bloc policies on Privacy protections.

Green
  • Require the Communications Security Establishment & CSIS to get a warrant before intruding on Canadians' communications.
  • Increase powers of Privacy Commissioner.
  • Regulate Internet privacy protections. Regulate social media platforms to have only verifiable identities can publish.

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Change the law to require the Communications Security Establishment and CSIS to get a warrant before intruding on Canadians’ communications.

Prohibit the routine surveillance of Canadians who protest against the government and the sharing of protesters' and NGO staff information with the National Energy Board, and others.

Significantly increase the powers of the Privacy Commissioner, in particular to protect identity and personal data, and to enforce privacy laws.

Require companies to grant access to all information they hold on an individual, and to delete personal information from company databases when requested by that person. Individuals would have the “right to be forgotten.”

Establish a parliamentary inquiry to recommend modernizing privacy laws governing the burgeoning “internet of things.”

Create mandatory data breach reporting for all government departments, companies, banks and political parties.

Regulate Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms to ensure that only actual people, with verifiable identities, are able to publish on those platforms.

Prohibit cyber surveillance and bulk collection of data as part of cyber surveillance by intelligence and police agencies.

Require that internet service providers may only release data when required to do so by warrant, except in emergency situations.

Require political parties to follow the Privacy Act, without exceptions.

From Election Platform 2019, retrieved 2019-09-22.

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We don't have any PPC policies on Privacy protections.

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