Canada's Bill C-16 Targets Deepfakes, Seeks Platform Accountability

0:00It's April 2, first, from your city to your ears. This is Calgary News today, powered by AI. Canada's federal government is pushing Bill C-16 to make sharing sexualized deepfakes a crime, expanding laws on non-consensual intimate images. To cover AI-generated stuff, this comes as a Parliamentary Committee wraps up its review this week, aiming to fight gender-based violence online. Experts want more than just criminal charges. They're calling for quick removal orders, like the U.S. Take a down act that forces platforms to. Delete reported deepfakes in 48 hours. Provinces like British Columbia have civil options for victims to sue and get images taken down. But those processes drag on for weeks or months. Experts say timing is everything since once images spread, they're tough to contain, especially on foreign sites. Times groups and researchers push for federal rules holding platforms accountable, similar to the online harms bill that died last year.

1:01Meanwhile, conservative MP Michelle Rampell-Garner has her own bills targeting deepfakes and platform duties, frustrated the government's been slow. Despite clear needs, justice officials are open to tweaks that fit charter rights. As the committee finishes, expect talks on synthetic images to heat up, with ministers eyeing expert advice for stronger fixes down the line.