Deletions
- 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 and to review the
- rationale and background information of the proposal. 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.
Additions
- 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
- +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 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 and to review the
- rationale and background information of the proposal. 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.
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. 
