Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic
CIPPIC Submision on Age Assurance
In September, CIPPIC participated in the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's exploratory consultation on privacy and age assurance. The submission questions whether age assurance systems can effectively determine a user's age without breaching privacy rights. It also proposes a tool designed to assess whether an age assurance system is truly privacy preserving.
CIPPIC participated in the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's (OPC) exploratory consultation on privacy and age assurance. The consultation focused on eliciting feedback regarding the OPC's preliminary positions, which would inform the creation of a guidance document about the use and design of age assurance systems.
CIPPIC's submission, authored by PhD student Eve Gaumond, questions the assumption that today's age assurance systems are sufficiently sophisticated to effectively ascertain users’ age without breaching privacy rights. It also proposes a questionnaire designed to help the OPC assess whether an age assurance system is truly privacy-preserving.
CIPPIC would like to extend heartfelt thanks to our collaborators on this submission: Sarah Scheffler (Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University), Madelyne Xiao (PhD Candidate, Princeton University) and Pierre-Luc Déziel (Full Professor, Université Laval).
Read CIPPIC's full submission.
