Alberta privacy commissioner raises concerns over government bills

Alberta’s information and privateness commissioner says she has important concerns astir 2 bills tabled by the authorities earlier this month.

The bills amend existing entree to accusation and privateness rules, and were touted by ministers arsenic being the strictest privateness regulations successful Canada.

But Diane McLeod, Alberta’s autarkic privateness and accusation commissioner, says the authorities would make legislative holes if the bills are approved.

One of her concerns is an amendment to privateness rules that would let the idiosyncratic accusation of a insignificant to beryllium shared without that minor’s support if doing truthful is deemed to beryllium successful the youth’s champion interest.

She’s besides acrophobic changes to Alberta’s state of accusation rules would springiness the authorities caller powerfulness to gatekeep information.

Technology and Innovation Minister Nate Glubish says the authorities volition reappraisal McLeod’s concerns and recommendations implicit the coming days.

— More to come…