- Proposal text
- Section 3 of The Privacy Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. P-21) shall be amended under the definition of
- “personal information.”
- Section 3(n) shall be added which reads: “Information related to biorhythms or neurological
- patterns.” The Criminal Code will be updated to include a law against the collection of neurological
- patterns or biorhythmic data without the consent of the individual, with a special focus on
- espionage, blackmail or political manipulation.
- The Criminal Code will be updated with reference to s. 7 and s. 8 of the Charter of Rights to
- Freedoms to protect citizens from unreasonable search by law enforcement using techniques to collect
- biorhythms or neurological patterns, especially when they have an expectation of privacy.
- A committee will be convened to created a comprehensive framework for NeuroPrivacy Rights, as well
- as a plan for regulating technologies that can breach NeuroPrivacy Rights.
-Submitter: Tyler Beaulac
- Proposal text
- Section 3 of The Privacy Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. P-21) shall be amended under the definition of
- “personal information.”
- Section 3(n) shall be added which reads: “Information related to biorhythms or neurological
- patterns.” The Criminal Code will be updated to include a law against the collection of neurological
- patterns or biorhythmic data without the consent of the individual, with a special focus on
- espionage, blackmail or political manipulation.
- The Criminal Code will be updated with reference to s. 7 and s. 8 of the Charter of Rights to
- Freedoms to protect citizens from unreasonable search by law enforcement using techniques to collect
- biorhythms or neurological patterns, especially when they have an expectation of privacy.
- A committee will be convened to created a comprehensive framework for NeuroPrivacy Rights, as well
- as a plan for regulating technologies that can breach NeuroPrivacy Rights.
- +Submitter: Tyler Beaulac
- +
- +Note from staff: This proposal has been posted for your consideration at the 2023 Annual General
- +Meeting. The content of this proposal is fixed, however a draft version has also been posted in the
- +Workshop to allow you to collaborate with the submitter on possible amendments. You can access the
- +workshop version of this proposal here ( /processes/create-proposals/f/457/proposals/4182 ), which
- +the submitter is still able to edit.
- +