Corporate & Commercial
AI Compliance & Data Privacy
Organizations adopting artificial intelligence face a rapidly evolving landscape of legal, ethical and privacy obligations. Boughton Law’s AI Compliance & Data Privacy group helps businesses deploy AI responsibly, ensuring alignment with privacy laws, human rights requirements and emerging regulatory frameworks.
With deep expertise at the intersection of technology, data governance and regulatory compliance, we guide clients through the safe, transparent, and accountable use of AI systems across their operations.
Whether strengthening privacy compliance, mitigating risk or responding to incidents and disputes, we help clients maintain compliance and manage exposure while maximizing business potential.
Responsible AI Adoption
With expertise at the intersection of law, technology and privacy, Boughton Law helps clients evaluate, implement and monitor AI tools with confidence. This includes assessing risks related to automated decision making, algorithmic bias, employee monitoring and vendor supplied AI systems.
We also advise AI developers, vendors and technology companies on building compliant, market-ready solutions. This includes guidance on lawful data collection and use, privacy compliance, drafting and strengthening terms of service, limiting liability exposure, making appropriate user disclosures, addressing ownership of AI-generated outputs, implementing robust security safeguards, and managing cross-border data flows and scaling requirements.
We also act as product counsel to AI developers, advising on embedding privacy compliance, data minimization and risk mitigation directly into system design, development and deployment.
Privacy Compliance & Data Governance
Our group advises on compliance with provincial and federal privacy laws, including PIPA, PIPEDA and forthcoming AI related privacy requirements. We support clients in building strong data governance frameworks that ensure lawful, ethical and transparent data use.
AI Policies, Procedures & Governance
We draft and review internal AI use policies, procurement standards and governance frameworks that help organizations manage risk, ensure accountability and meet regulatory expectations. This includes developing documentation protocols, audit trails, and explainability measures to support transparency, internal governance and regulatory scrutiny.
Human Rights & Algorithmic Fairness
We assist employers and organizations in identifying and mitigating discrimination risks associated with AI driven tools, including hiring technologies, predictive analytics and automated decision systems.
Regulatory Readiness & Compliance
Our lawyers help clients prepare for and comply with emerging AI regulations, including:
• The forthcoming Canadian Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA)
• Provincial privacy law reforms
• Sector specific AI and data use requirements
Investigations, Disputes & Incident Response
We support organizations responding to privacy complaints, regulatory investigations and disputes involving AI related harms, discrimination claims or data misuse. We also assist in developing incident response protocols tailored to AI system failures, data breaches, model errors and unintended or harmful outputs.
Our Approach
We help clients embrace the benefits of AI while protecting their reputation, reducing legal exposure and staying ahead of evolving regulatory framework. Our group combines legal insight with practical, technology aware guidance to ensure AI systems are deployed responsibly and ethically.
