Critics warn of health data privacy concerns as Ottawa ramps up AI strategy
Canada's federal government is advancing its artificial intelligence strategy, and critics are raising concerns about how health data may be collected, used, or shared in that process.
Why this matters: Health data is about as personal as it gets. It can reveal conditions people have never told their families, affect insurance, employment, and custody disputes, and follow someone for life. When a government builds an AI strategy around this kind of information, the details matter enormously. Who can access it, under what rules, and what happens when it is misused? A national AI push does not automatically come with national privacy protections. Canadians have a right to know what their medical information is actually being used for.
Who should care: Healthcare professionals · Privacy officers · Compliance · General readers · AI governance · Policy
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