Privacy and Freedom of Expression

The Alberta Court of Kings Bench just released a bombshell decision in Clearview AI Inc v Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner), 2025 ABKB 287. In short, it found that sections 12, 17, and 20 of the Personal Information Protection Act, (PIPA), unjustifiably infringed section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In so ruling, it essentially found that PIPA’s blanket restrictions against collecting publicly available information from the Internet without obtaining individuals’ consent were unconstitutional.…