However, they are a policy option. Key issues in relation to possible administrative remedies are these. Part II of the Paper, Privacy in General , focuses on the two central legislative options that are available to the Province if it wishes to reinforce existing legal protections for privacy in New Brunswick at a general level. As to the tort option, the Paper describes briefly the existing legal remedies by which privacy interests may be protected, and then focuses attention on the Uniform Privacy Act prepared by the Uniform Law Conference of Canada. The Paper suggests that legislation establishing a tort of invasion of privacy in New Brunswick would be likely to be substantially similar to the Uniform Act .
Several provinces have similar legislation already.
The Paper discusses the Act as a possible model for legislation, and suggests that there are three key issues for public discussion. Finally the Paper examines the possibility of establishing non-judicial remedies for infringements of privacy. The Paper starts by pointing out that there is a difference between the kinds of conduct that might that might amount to a tort, a wrongful act for which damages, declarations and injunctions could be available, and less extreme infringements of privacy. It mentions things such as video surveillance, workplace testing and workplace monitoring as examples of practices which, in some people's view, are symptoms of a progressive loss of individual privacy in today's society. The question is whether non-judicial avenues might be established as a means to addressing some of these privacy issues.