{"id":7060097,"date":"2026-09-18T09:25:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/legal\/bill-c-34-at-a-glance-canadas-new-digital-safety-act\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T09:25:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:25:01","slug":"bill-c-34-at-a-glance-canadas-new-digital-safety-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7060097","title":{"rendered":"Bill C-34 at a glance: Canada\u2019s new Digital Safety Act"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Government of Canada has introduced a comprehensive legal framework intended to govern online safety, reduce harms resulting from online content, and establish transparency and accountability requirements for operators of regulated services such as social media sites, chatbots and other online services. Bill C-34, the\u00a0Safe Social Media Act<\/em><\/a>, creates two new statutes: the\u00a0Digital Safety Act<\/em>\u00a0(the DSA or the Act), which imposes duties on the operators of regulated services, and the\u00a0Digital Safety Commission of Canada Act<\/em>, which establishes the regulator that administers and enforces those duties.<\/p>\n

We have prepared a summary<\/a> of this bill which is available on Osler\u2019s website. The key takeaways are the following:<\/p>\n