Information & Ethics committee  Barely.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't agree with what you're saying, with all due respect. I want to push the.... And I'm being a bit of a privacy advocate here--a privacy radical, almost. Some of my friends behind me might not agree; they're free to speak their minds in due course. I want as much consent

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, yes, there are different obligations. There was a wonderful cartoon last weekend in a national newspaper. In the cartoon somebody opens the door to “Audits”; the answer is, “I'm not interested”. Obviously there are obligations and duties of government that have to be carri

Information & Ethics committee  When am I going to stop talking--that's probably the question.

Information & Ethics committee  That's an excellent explanation of what I'm after. What happens right now is that government departments say it's up to the Privacy Commissioner to make the Privacy Act work, even if it's lousy. And Treasury Board has not done its work except on the policy side. In the 1980s

Information & Ethics committee  There's probably nothing more important that could be done to protect the privacy of Canadians than to destroy more personal information. I mentioned to you earlier that I've worked for organizations that have been in existence for 25 or 30 years or even longer. They've never des

Information & Ethics committee  I explained earlier when I was asked a similar question that some days I remember wonderful horror stories. Some days I remember them less. This happens to be a day when horror stories are not springing to mind, partly because I like to put them out of my mind, because they're of

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly Parliament has decided that there's a much higher consent standard for the private sector than for the public sector, because there's almost no consent standard. There is a requirement in the Privacy Act that you should only use personal information without the consent

Information & Ethics committee  I have a whole shtick about how important it is for people to be sensitive to privacy as a human right, to be concerned. One of the good things these privacy commissioners have done is to give parents kits for their kids and training for schools about being careful with Facebook,

Information & Ethics committee  Well, Parliament, around 1905, when they first enacted the Census Act, said yes, it does.

Information & Ethics committee  One of my first privacy books, published in 1978 or 1979, was about statistical agencies around the world. The theme of it was the importance of using individual data for epidemiological research and statistical research and so forth. The strongest privacy legislation in the coun

Information & Ethics committee  I'm a professor and I'm a researcher. I just did the work for the regional health survey for the Assembly of First Nations. I asked if they really wanted to be going into homes and asking children, adolescents, and adults these kinds of extremely sensitive, personal questions abo

Information & Ethics committee  The census of population is certainly mandatory. I loved it when I was Privacy Commissioner. I had an employment survey, and they were all nervous about what was going to happen, but I was quite happy to participate. I watched them like a hawk. They didn't do anything wrong. Agai

Information & Ethics committee  I was working with a client in British Columbia last year, a crown corporation with a lot of sensitive personal information. It did an assessment of the risks involved in its public sector and private sector relationships. It was a very sophisticated management review of what the

Information & Ethics committee  You understand that, in the 1982 act, there is no security standard at all. What we put in the other pieces of legislation in the public sector across Canada is a reasonableness standard: as PIPEDA asks, what would a reasonable person expect to have happen? Well, no wonder sec