Who Owns Your Face and Voice? A Deeper Dive into the AI Privacy Right Gaps Within Canada.
In Canada, it is illegal to rob someone's house, yet, it is not always illegal to rob someone of their face and voice through AI. This past March, a Nova Scotia courtroom proved it. A former classmate had taken multiple photos of young women from social media, used AI to make them appear naked, and shared these images without their consent. The result? He was acquitted of the deepfake charge, not because the damage wasn’t done, but because the Criminal Code’s definition of an ‘intimate image’...
