You may have heard about Quebec’s Law 25. Yes, it’s a data protection law. Yes, it affects AI. No, it’s not complicated to understand \u2014 I’ll explain it the way I’d explain it to my aunt.<\/p>\n
Imagine you have a really secret poutine recipe. Law 25 is like telling someone: “You can’t just steal my recipe and sell it without asking.” Except the recipe is your personal data: your address, your preferences, your search history. And the person stealing it is a company training an AI model on it.<\/p>\n
The real deal: this law strengthens your rights. It says companies must be transparent<\/strong> when they use your data, they must get your explicit permission<\/strong>, and you have the right to say no. Period.<\/p>\n If a company wants to train an AI on your data, they can’t just do it quietly. They have to:<\/p>\n 1. Tell you they’re doing it It’s like asking your permission before sharing a photo of you on Facebook. Except now it’s for training machines. Seems reasonable, right?<\/p>\n In practice, you probably won’t notice anything immediately. But long term, you have more control over your info. Companies can’t just quietly profile you to sell you stuff. It’s a small step toward a slightly less creepy internet.<\/p>\n Want more info on how it works? Check out Sherpa<\/a> (it’s free) or dive deeper at Laeka Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You may have heard about Quebec’s Law 25. Yes, it’s a data protection law. Yes, it affects AI. No, it’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-in-quebec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laeka.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How does it change things for companies using AI?<\/h2>\n
\n2. Explain why
\n3. Get your permission
\n4. Let you change your mind<\/p>\nAnd for you, the regular person?<\/h2>\n