Industry committee  You asked how we can have this confusion. I think we've seen it happen on this panel just in the last number of minutes. The panel was asked a question that I thought Mr. Kardash effectively responded to with the use of a case from Mr. Jeneroux. He started by saying that if you

Industry committee  I just note—and it's come up now a couple of times—that there's this notion that there are the really bad actors, the spamming organizations, and everyone is in agreement that we have to target them; and then there's an attempt to characterize all the other businesses as not bein

Industry committee  One of the most surprising things is that the large spamming organizations operate with impunity and very often in the open, something one wouldn't expect. One of the reasons they do this has to do with the lax laws that exist in many countries. It's recognized that one of the on

Industry committee  I'll just reiterate my opening remarks. I don't think there is anything more telling, to be honest, than knowing that Canada was once truly a haven for large spamming organizations responsible collectively for more than 80% of the spam generated worldwide, with a disproportionate

Industry committee  I'd note that CAN-SPAM in the United States is aptly named, because you can SPAM. The reality is that the task force had the opportunity to look at some of those other laws. The idea that Canada should emulate a law that is universally regarded as entirely ineffective strikes m

Industry committee  If anything, when we're talking about something like IoT, that's an area in which we particularly need stronger privacy rules and clear knowledge of how our information is being used. Let's recognize what that is. If we're talking about giving companies the right to listen in th

Industry committee  No, it's not an inhibitor.

Industry committee  Thanks very much. Good morning. My name is Michael Geist. I'm a law professor at the University of Ottawa, where I hold the Canada research chair in Internet and e-commerce law. I served as a member of the national task force on spam and appeared before this committee in the de

Information & Ethics committee  This is obviously a commonality among many countries, especially attempts to facilitate border crossing and make it easier. One of the problems with those attempts to facilitate and make life easier is that it comes with the provision of a massive amount of information, which the

Information & Ethics committee  Countries do search. Whether or not they ought to be searching is a completely different question. Whether or not there are the appropriate oversight mechanisms, safeguards, and protections when they do conduct those searches is also a different question. Can the NSA engage in w

Information & Ethics committee  That's a good question. I'm not sure if it's unfair, but it's a good one. I think—and it has been highlighted by a lot of your witnesses—that the move to the electronic and digital world has meant that the scope of a search is not the scope of a search from a decade ago. If we a

Information & Ethics committee  I would start my response by noting—I think it was Kris that noted—that the courts often say that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy. I think part of the problem here is that, if we are reliant on a reasonable expectation of privacy, but many people have in a sense bee

Information & Ethics committee  I just want to highlight the problem with a complaint-driven process in an environment when it's largely a black box to most individual users...about the availability of a complaint process as well as what the proper guidelines are. The concern, I would argue, from an individual'

Information & Ethics committee  Thanks very much. Good afternoon. My name is Michael Geist. I am a law professor at the University of Ottawa, where I hold the Canada research chair in Internet and e-commerce law. I have appeared many times before this committee on privacy issues, although not always in such a

International Trade committee  That is precisely what happens, and it's a bit difficult to understand, given that we've had this in place for two years and it can be easily remedied through regulation, why nothing has happened to date.