Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne waits to appear at the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in Ottawa on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne waits to appear at the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in Ottawa on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
Canada's privacy commissioner says LinkedIn has paused training its artificial intelligence models on data from ºÃÉ«tv users.
Philippe Dufresne says his office was informed of the pause by the tech platform, which he had reached out to after media reports suggested LinkedIn was training AI models with data from ºÃÉ«tv users it had not informed of the practice first.
Dufresne says he has requested information from LinkedIn about the company’s training practices as well as how it obtains consent from its members.
He says LinkedIn believed it had taken a "privacy protective" approach to training its AI models but will now work to ensure it has met the requirements of privacy laws before restarting the practice.
Dufresne says even when personal information is publicly accessible, it is subject to privacy laws and must be adequately protected.
LinkedIn suspended using U.K. user data to train its artificial intelligence models in September, after Britain's information commissioner raised similar concerns.
This report by ºÃÉ«tvwas first published Dec. 10, 2024.
