Information & Ethics committee  It's education, user education. There has been talk about the Internet driving licence. I don't think we want to necessarily restrict access to the Internet, but the government should take leadership in providing or even having some mandated educational programs for children or f

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. When there is a data breach it is important that not only the users be notified. There also has to be an analysis. However, an analysis can sometimes mean that police services or government or organizations will be investigating the incident and identifying the causes, whet

Information & Ethics committee  It's actually worse than that because if the banks are paying, we could say it's a zero sum game. Whatever I lose, I gain back. The problem with this technology is that they actually present a threat to our privacy like we've never seen before. We cannot turn off these cards. The

Information & Ethics committee  With respect to the Heartbleed incident, the press release from the CRA was that those whose numbers had been identified would be notified by mail. I believe they will do that. In more general terms, the answer is no. From data that we've compiled over the years by penetrating b

Information & Ethics committee  If you don't mind, I can borrow your credit card, I'll shut off my phone and I'll be able to read your credit card number over the air, and your name, and your expiry date. There's an app for that.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, unfortunately the banks were mostly motivated by profit in developing this technology. They wanted to get their filthy 3.5% of profit on the market of the small pocket change. That's at the cost of Canadians’ privacy because that technology is not protecting their privacy.

Information & Ethics committee  What regulation...?

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I will very briefly. The world of cybercrime has become more complex in the last few years. There are at least four different kinds of groups. There are those who attract you to a website where you are going to get infected. There are those who operate those websites to inf

Information & Ethics committee  That was Aramco. Yes. They had about 30,000 desktops that were—

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Typically viruses do not harm the hardware, but in this case it was a management decision of Aramco. Of course they are rich. They said the best way to deal with the problem is to throw away all those computers, buy new ones, and reinstall them. Probably that was a very goo

Information & Ethics committee  As I said, high school kids hacking with respect to the Heartbleed incident, students from the University of Western Ontario, they used to be the bigger problem. Now they are just a nuisance. They are not the problem. From a social-political point of view, however, in countries

Information & Ethics committee  It's not only the government. It's Canadian industry. It's foreign governments worldwide. It's a worldwide problem. I don't think the Canadian government is less diligent than all the governments worldwide or even all the big organizations. It's not only in the last few years. It

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. The problem is that, unfortunately, a lot of these identity thieves are not in Canada. They're not within our jurisdiction. It's organized crime in eastern Europe, in Indonesia, in Brazil, and they're simply outside our jurisdiction. A lot of these countries are not collabor

Information & Ethics committee  I'm going to forward that question to my colleague, Benoît Dupont, who has some interesting ideas about what we could do about disrupting the black market.

Information & Ethics committee  That figure comes from Symantec, which is an anti-virus company. The 2013 report for Canada reports that figure. I'm not an expert on how to quantify these things. Some people might say they suspect that figure comes from a party that is interested in maybe growing the size of t