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Canada excluded from Google's expansion of AI chatbot Bard
(www.ctvnews.ca)
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The Bard exclusion isn’t due to the news thing; it’s due to Canada having privacy laws and a privacy watchdog that actually pays attention. If Google expanded to Canada, they’d have to answer a bunch of questions it appears they’d rather avoid.
I was under the impression that the EU has pretty strict privacy laws and oversight. Is Canada stricter?
No. Canada might have different laws, but they are no more stringent than the EU or California. Surely there is differing regulations, and might be the market size that had it dropped in priority.
This is right, it's not hard to imagine that compliance is part of a ROI equation along with number of users.
EU has a population of 700 million vs Canada's 40.
Excuse me. Canada is gaining like 100K new people per day. That's 41 mili.. 42 m... 45 million to you!