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Government of Canada – DTPR AI Register

AI-Powered Translation for Government Documents

Translation & Language Access

What it collects that can identify you

Sensitive personal information
Identifiable data
  • User-uploaded documents may contain personal information about identifiable individuals, including information subject to solicitor-client privilege. The register confirms the system involves personal information.

Government of Canada AI Register — JUStranslate (2526-JUS-005)

Sensitive personal information
Identifiable data
  • Uploaded documents may contain information classified up to Protected B, which covers information that could reasonably be expected to cause serious injury if disclosed without authorization, and may include information subject to solicitor-client privilege.

Government of Canada AI Register — JUStranslate (2526-JUS-005)

Run by
Department of Justice Canada (JUS)
Where
No fixed location
Kept
Not stated by the Helpful Places.
Shared with
Accountable organization

What it is for

Translation & Language Access

JUStranslate is an AI-powered translation service used by Government of Canada employees to translate documents that may contain sensitive information, including content protected up to the Protected B classification level. The service uses cloud-based automated systems to generate translations. Users should be aware that their uploaded documents — which may include information subject to solicitor-client privilege — are processed by automated AI systems rather than human translators.

What it collects and what happens to it

Data taken in

Sensitive personal information
Identifiable data
  • User-uploaded documents may contain personal information about identifiable individuals, including information subject to solicitor-client privilege. The register confirms the system involves personal information.

Government of Canada AI Register — JUStranslate (2526-JUS-005)

Sensitive personal information
Identifiable data
  • Uploaded documents may contain information classified up to Protected B, which covers information that could reasonably be expected to cause serious injury if disclosed without authorization, and may include information subject to solicitor-client privilege.

Government of Canada AI Register — JUStranslate (2526-JUS-005)

Processing

Language Models
  • The system uses cloud-based automated language model technology to perform translation. The specific model or vendor is not disclosed in the register entry.

Government of Canada AI Register — JUStranslate (2526-JUS-005)

What it does

Creating (Generative AI)
Human decides
  • The system generates translated text from user-uploaded documents. Translations are produced by cloud-based AI and reviewed or used at the discretion of the GC employee who submitted them.

Government of Canada AI Register — JUStranslate (2526-JUS-005)

Outputs

Generated content
Anonymized data
  • The system produces translated text in another language based on the user-submitted document. The translated output mirrors the content and sensitivity level of the source document.

Government of Canada AI Register — JUStranslate (2526-JUS-005)

Run by

Department of Justice Canada (JUS)
  • The Department of Justice Canada deploys and operates JUStranslate for use by Government of Canada employees to translate documents up to Protected B classification.

Government of Canada AI Register — JUStranslate (2526-JUS-005)

Built by

Government of Canada
  • The Government of Canada developed JUStranslate. The system relies on cloud-based automated systems whose underlying vendor is not named in the register entry.

Government of Canada AI Register — JUStranslate (2526-JUS-005)

Kept for

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

Shared with

Available to the accountable organization
  • Translated outputs and uploaded documents are available to the Department of Justice Canada as the deploying organization. Access to data by the cloud-based vendor or other third parties is not described in the register.

Government of Canada AI Register — JUStranslate (2526-JUS-005)

Stored

Not stated by the Helpful Places.

How to read the colours

Can it identify you?

Anonymized data
Data about people with the link to who is broken. Stripped of identifiers, blurred, aggregated, or noised so this system can’t reasonably tie a record back to an individual.
Pseudonymous data
Each person’s data is tied to a token (hash, ID, template) that lets this system recognise the same person across events, but the token itself doesn’t reveal a name. Reidentification is possible with extra information.
Identifiable data
The data either contains a direct identifier (name, address, account name, recognisable face or voice, plate number) or carries a token this system uses to look up legal identity during processing.

Who completes the loop?

Human decides
This mode suggests; a person decides what to do next. The AI is always advisory — a human is in the loop on every decision. Example: a triage tool ranks cases for a clinician who chooses which to see first.
Human executes
This mode decides; a person carries out the result. Example: an optimizer plans the day’s trash-collection routes, and drivers run them.
Autonomous
This mode decides and acts on its own. No person reviews each decision or carries out the resulting action.

Definitions from the DTPR standard. Amber is about your data, violet about who decides. The fuller the shape and the deeper the colour, the more identifying the data or the less a person is involved.

What you can do

Ask about this system

Questions go to the Helpful Places, not the vendor.

Your rights

  • Right to Be Informed of AI UseThe Government of Canada register confirms that AI use is disclosed to users of JUStranslate. GC employees are informed that translations are generated by automated AI systems before using the service.

Risks and safeguards

  • Reputational harmMistranslations of legal or sensitive government documents could cause reputational harm to individuals named in those documents or to the Department of Justice. The system is approved for Protected B content, implying organizational controls; however, the register does not describe specific accuracy thresholds, post-translation review requirements, or error-correction procedures for end-users.
  • Civil liberties harmDocuments subject to solicitor-client privilege represent a significant civil liberties concern: if cloud-based processing exposes privileged communications, this could undermine the right to legal confidentiality. The register states the system is approved for Protected B but does not detail data isolation, cloud vendor controls, or whether solicitor-client privilege is preserved in cloud transmission. No specific mitigations are described in the register entry.