More than 65,000 people have signed the Statement on Superintelligence, released October 22. Signatories span many backgrounds and beliefs, including: The short-and-sweet Statement calls for “a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is The Statement has had worldwide coverage, from the Associated Press, … [Read more...] about Statement on Superintelligence
Surveillance
PACC Joins the Call to Withdraw Bill C-2
The Privacy & Access Council of Canada, along with more than 65 other leading Canadian individuals and organizations, has endorsed an open letter urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to withdraw the deeply flawed, anti-privacy Bill C-2, the Strong Borders Act. The Strong Borders Act opens the door to unprecedented surveillance and cross-border data sharing. Its sweeping … [Read more...] about PACC Joins the Call to Withdraw Bill C-2
Transparency Performance Indicators
After years of work, the Kantara Initiative Anchored Notice and Consent Work Group has published as Kantara Recommendation "Transparency Performance Indicators". The indicators — TPIs — measure the transparency of PII Controllers (as required by the Council of Europe 108+, GDPR, Quebec Law 25, and others) and map them to open international standards including the ISO/IEC 29100 … [Read more...] about Transparency Performance Indicators
Canada’s Children’s Privacy Code
The Privacy and Access Council of Canada (PACC) is pleased to have contributed to the Joint Submission to Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) in response to its Exploratory Consultation regarding the development of a Children’s Privacy Code. We welcome the OPC’s leadership in developing a children’s privacy code that extends online protections to all children … [Read more...] about Canada’s Children’s Privacy Code
Boundless boundaries of the Strong Borders Act
Days before Parliament recessed for the summer, the Government of Canada introduced the Strong Borders Act, ostensibly to increase security of the Canada/US border and help stem the flow of fentanyl and other contraband. The proposed law does “more to expand the state’s power to access private data in Canada than any law in the past decade” and will have … [Read more...] about Boundless boundaries of the Strong Borders Act
Watching the Watchers Yields Results
The collective pressure of our global community has been effective at bringing attention to the importance of encryption in protecting privacy, institutions, and governments, and the harms that would result from undermining encryption. On April 8, 2025, 237 civil society organizations, companies, academics, privacy and cybersecurity experts, including the Privacy & … [Read more...] about Watching the Watchers Yields Results
