Information & Ethics committee  No. At the moment, Nexopia will suspend an account so that you can't get into it, but it is still in existence in their servers.

Information & Ethics committee  There are not many companies that do true delete. My understanding is that you can go through Facebook for individual items and delete. But the question is whether they are truly deleted or not in backup of backup of backup. They say they are for most purposes. But you have to go

Information & Ethics committee  I think that's a very hard one for social networks, which are designed to solicit and then keep information. That's the way they run. I don't believe they've been designed from the ground up to easily delete information permanently and to guarantee, on an auditable basis, that it

Information & Ethics committee  At the moment, I think that's the reality for most social networks, because the pressure is to keep data and/or at least anonymize it so it can be used for other purposes and you don't lose the value of it.

Information & Ethics committee  The Privacy Commissioner said in her finding, especially for youth users, that a lot of the information was sensitive: which school you go to, what gender you are. They had a very long list of interests, and a lot of the interests are things like clubbing, partying, drinking, or

Information & Ethics committee  It's a choice, so it's been identified by that person. There are also a lot of free forums, so you can write your friends, just like on Facebook or anything else. I think a lot of the information is just sensitive through its context.

Information & Ethics committee  A big part of our complaint was saying that it might be reasonable for an adult at 24 to make the choice to put that sort of sensitive information into a public area, but often teens don't have the maturity to understand that it's going to be available either outside the site, in

Information & Ethics committee  I'll just keep saying it: yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I think some websites of some commercial parties do a better job than others do. Google tries and tries. They're so big and complex I think they almost can't, by definition, make it clear. But we do find that when the sites try to write from the user perspective rather than from

Information & Ethics committee  There are a number of links between social media sites and data collectors. Nexopia, on the commercial half of their site, had relationships with marketers in which they claimed to have information on how teens thought and purchased, because of their data set. I'm quite sure that

Information & Ethics committee  I think there is a lot that is good in our act. It needs some tweaks. It's really a matter of having the Privacy Commissioner look into problem areas, because she's on it; she has the experts. She can be ahead of the curve and work with other privacy commissioners around the worl

Information & Ethics committee  I think I can. The way the act is structured right now is that the complainant or the Privacy Commissioner can go to Federal Court to enforce a fine. The company can't complain if it loses. That works fine if the first resolution is just an ombudsman-type resolution where we reco

Information & Ethics committee  I would agree, definitely, that that would have to be a change that would go along with giving order-making powers. For example, in Alberta it's very possible to go to Queen's Bench and say that a privacy commission decision was crazy and have it overturned. If you want to separ

Information & Ethics committee  I would like to say I could just fill you in, but I know that because of the “right to forget” stuff going on in Europe, the Article 29 working party is working on this. I don't know what their technical committees are doing. It would be a very good idea to set up a committee, le

Information & Ethics committee  We did touch on it a little bit on the Nexopia complaint, because Nexopia requires, or it did require—I think it still does—that if you create a profile and you want to put a picture up, it has to be your face or torso. I don't know quite why torso is included, but face is. If yo