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Okay, I am Canadian, so let me have at it.
First off, our privacy laws basically forbid the sharing or transmission of personal information without permission. The problem that exists is that the DOJ has decided that you cannot accept the word of a third party (IE: primary producer), yet at the same time the Canadian government forbids the sharing of the info.
Plain and simple, Canadian content producers are pretty darn screwed.
European content producers need to check their local privacy laws as well, as there may be issues going forward.
There is a huge difference between someone going to a beer store and showing ID to buy beer compared with appearing in a photoshoot and having copies of your drivers license and passport mailed out to tens, hundreds, or even thousands of webmasters (and a few potential stalkers). If you cannot see the difference, then you miss the point entirely.
notjoe, it's called "art"... and you can do almost anything for art as long as it's not obscene.
Prostitution itself is illegal in the US, but is not in Canada - so this issue would be much more relevant in the US if the subject had not been settled more than 25years ago already.
Alex
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