Information & Ethics committee  Well of course the criminals become more sophisticated and under-reporting is a big problem for us. So we try to capture, through use of a credit card. We create fake identities as well to try to attract this type of behaviour. We try to subscribe to something to see if there is

Information & Ethics committee  Our mandate is to ensure that Canadian businesses and consumers prosper in a competitive and innovative marketplace. Our focus is very much on competition for Canadians and the health of the economy. Generally speaking, we have provisions that deal with criminal matters such as p

Information & Ethics committee  Madam Chair, I'm happy to report that our relationships are ongoing and frequent. Of course, one of the big issues of mass marketing fraud is how the criminals adapt to changes and take advantage of new technologies, but we frequently participate in these law enforcement groups a

Information & Ethics committee  I can say that we have to keep our own technological methodologies of detection of such crimes at a high level. I don't think we have anybody or a practitioner like that in our employ; I might be surprised, but I hope not. But certainly we look at social media sites for informati

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the invitation to speak to you today about identity theft. My name is Morgan Currie and I am an assistant deputy commissioner in the fair business practices branch, which is an enforcement branch of the Competition Bureau part of Industry Canada. I a