Alberta’s privacy watchdog concerned incoming law allows Crown to sell customers’ personal information – CBC

May 11, 2026

Limited exception would allow Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis to sell customer information with website

Alberta’s information and privacy commissioner says newly passed legislation allowing a Crown corporation to sell users’ personal information to a private company sets a “concerning precedent” for how the province handles sensitive data.

It could soon be legal for Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis (AGLC) to sell Play Alberta, its online gambling platform, along with the personal information of customers now that legislators have passed Bill 31, The Red Tape Reduction Statutes Amendment Act, 2026.

Alberta’s relatively new Protection of Privacy Act (POPA), which came into effect June 11, 2025, prohibits public bodies from selling personal information for any purpose.

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