Status: Passed first reading in the House of Commons
Description: Places a duty of care on social media operators to protect young people against online threats. Seeks to give parents the tools to manage their children’s privacy and safety online. Finally, the bill would update the Criminal Code to include prohibitions on online criminal harassment and the sharing of false intimate images created through artificial intelligence technology.
Analysis: Bill C-412 recognizes the need to hold social media operators accountable, to give important tools to parents to protect their children online, and to combat false intimate images through criminal prohibitions. Young people face many threats online, also with regard to pornography and sexual exploitation. This bill is a helpful step in combatting such threats.
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