19th General Meeting

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

Sponsors: Donna Mendelsohn, Josef Cherniawsky, Constantine Kritsonis, Richard Langley, Tyler Beaulac, Derek Thompson, Mr. Colin Griffiths, Kathryn Noddin, Kyle Hutton, Jeff Desjardins, Philip Mueller, Evan Bonnar, Margaret Rogers, Andrea Noskey, Ms. Anita Payne, Emerald Gibson, Jonathan Bussières, Samuel Moisan-Domm, Bruce Gunn, Derek Menard, Gordon Mcdowell, Gilbert Vachon, Robert Gibson , Farrukh Chishtie, Jayden Baldonado, Sheila Rea, J Herbert Latchko, Harmon Pope

Note from staff: This proposal is for consideration at the 19th Annual General Meeting. A second copy, with additional background information, is available in the Workshop to allow you to collaborate on amendments. You can access the workshop version here, which the submitter can still edit.