Projects examine these issues in the light of consent, privacy, labour rights, and employment law
The Law Commission of Ontario has initiated two projects focusing on intimate images and deepfakes and on workplace surveillance, examining these issues through the lens of consent, privacy, labour rights, and employment law.
The LCO has appointed legal counsel Susie Lindsay to lead the intimate images and deepfakes project, while legal counsel Ryan Fritsch will spearhead the workplace surveillance project. Public consultation papers on both projects are set to be released this year.
The LCO noted that Manitoba had updated its civil law to directly address deepfakes, while Bill C-16 has modified the Criminal Code to cover sexualized deepfakes. However, Ontario is the sole common law province that has not implemented a civil statute tackling this issue; thus, the project will examine the reform of Ontario civil law to cover these concerns.
This project will define the concepts of “intimate image,” “deepfake,” “creation,” and “distribution” to inform legislation and for clarity. The project investigates the implementation of a civil legal framework to tackle the creation, alteration, and distribution of nonconsensual intimate images, which has increasingly been used in harassing, extorting, silencing, or sexually exploiting people.
The project will identify parties who ought to be held responsible, outline the assessment of liability, and determine...
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