Tech Firms Look to Europe for Direction After Prorogation Wipes Parliamentary Bills

Tech Firms Look to Europe for Direction After Prorogation Wipes Parliamentary Bills
Hands type on a computer keyboard in Toronto in this Oct. 9 photo illustration. The Canadian Press/Graeme Roy
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Canadian tech companies say they are patching together their own standards, mostly borrowed from European laws, to guide them through the limbo of prorogation.

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prorogued Parliament until March 24, that automatically wiped tabled cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, data and online harms bills from the agenda.