The Broadcasting Act should be amended to include privacy protection as one of its objectives, like it is in Canada’s telecommunications law, Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne said. He spoke Wednesday at a Senate committee hearing on Bill C-11, the Liberal government legislation that applies Canadian content and other requirements to streaming services. (The Logic)

Talking point: If passed, the new system would leave it to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to write the final rules about what kinds of media platforms would be required to host and make discoverable to users, and how much of it. Adding privacy to that law makes it an additional consideration for the CRTC and any courts hearing cases about its decisions. Dufresne also flagged that the new EU Digital Services Act requires the largest digital platforms to let users opt out of receiving recommendations based on their data profile (the kind that knows you’ll watch noted Canadian Kiefer Sutherland’s “Designated Survivor” because you binged all of Netflix’s “Lincoln Lawyer” remake). Policymakers should consider such methods to preserve Canadians’ privacy, he said.