Parliament Hill in Ottawa. The Heritage Department said it is now aware of 'an inadvertent oversight' that removed a privacy provision in its Online Streaming Act.

The federal government says it’s “looking into” what appears to be the accidental removal of a privacy provision in its Online Streaming Act.

Earlier this week, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist outlined in a blog post that a privacy provision in the legislation was removed only two months after the bill became law, through an amendment contained in another bill.

The Heritage Department said it is now aware of the issue.

“We have recently been made aware of what appears to be an inadvertent oversight in a coordinating amendment and are looking into it,” a spokesperson said in a statement.

Geist said that stat

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