Timothy Banks, CIPM, CIPP/C, writes for Privacy Tracker about two new bills addressing genetic privacy in Canada. "News reports frequently suggest that Canada is alone amongst G-7 countries in not having a law specifically addressing genetic discrimination." Analyzing these bills and putting them up against laws in the U.K. and U.S., Banks writes that "Canada might be late to the table, but the Canadian anti-discrimination laws, if either were passed, would prohibit the use of genetic testing and genetic characteristics to make distinctions between individuals in far more circumstances than is currently the case in either the U.K. or the U.S." (IAPP member login required.)
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