Law / Canada / Saskatchewan
The Protection From Human Trafficking Act, court orders against an internet intermediary to remove or de-index visual recordings
The Protection From Human Trafficking Act, S.S. 2021, c. 23, ss. 2, 4(2), 18(1)(c)
In force since .
A notice and action rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Governance
As of .
What it requires
- If a Saskatchewan court orders you, as an internet intermediary (a person or organization that hosts or indexes third party content through an online platform), in a protection order or in an action for human trafficking, to remove or de-index the visual recordings of the victim or plaintiff, make every reasonable effort to remove or de-index them.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
What this law does
On an application, the court may issue a protection order against the respondent if it determines, on a balance of probabilities, that the respondent has engaged or may engage in the human trafficking of the victim. A protection order may include a term requiring any internet intermediary or other person or organization to make every reasonable effort to remove or de-index all visual recordings of the victim.
In an action for human trafficking, the court may order any internet intermediary or other person or organization to make every reasonable effort to remove or de-index all visual recordings of the plaintiff. The court may also order the defendant to make visual recordings of the plaintiff unavailable to others, including by having them removed from any platform operated by an internet intermediary and de-indexed from any internet search engine.
An internet intermediary is a person or organization that hosts or indexes third party content through an online platform. The Act comes into force by order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council. Order in Council 153/2022 brought The Protection From Human Trafficking Act into force on .
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app operates a social platform, reuses other publishers' content or publishes adult content.