Cleaview jurisdiction

As previously reported, the Alberta Court of Kings Bench just released an important decision in Clearview AI Inc v Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner), 2025 ABKB 287. My prior blog post focused on the court’s decision holding that portions of Alberta’s privacy law, PIPA, violated the Charter’s freedom of expression protections. In this post I focus on the part of the decision in which the court found that Clearview AI was subject to PIPA. In particular, I discuss the statement by the court that PIPA applies even to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information about an Alberta resident that takes place wholly outside of Canada.…