Information & Ethics committee  No. I would agree with that.

Information & Ethics committee  That'll be Pippa's question.

Information & Ethics committee  When we talk about technology, we talk about security, and data security is the weakest-link problem. There are technological aspects to it. We can have good technology. We have encryption technology, but it's just not being used. People don't use it. When we get into new types o

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, with encryption, the policies may even be there, but you have to have people to actually do it.

Information & Ethics committee  I guess there are different kinds of identity theft. Some is very opportunistic and targeted, where someone has access to the information, gets the information, and then impersonates that person to commit a fraud. In that case the thief and the fraudster are the same. When we'r

Information & Ethics committee  Just as an example, and it's old data, but when we did our survey of consumers in 2008, we found 1.7 million people or 6.5% of Canadian adults were the victim of some kind of identity fraud in the last year. They spent over 20 million hours and more than $150 million to resolve p

Information & Ethics committee  Or I can pay $16 a month and they'll send me that and some other sort of advice about how to protect myself. It really does bother me that they're making a profit out of the problem, because then where's the incentive for them to help get rid of threats? It bothers me when my ban

Information & Ethics committee  As Ms. Lawson said, the more serious type of identity theft financially is new accounts fraud. The only way you can find out if someone is opening up accounts in your name is through the credit reporting agencies. As I said, I do a pretty good job of protecting my information a

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly information about data breaches and notification requirements for data breaches are a big part of the information that we need to gather to look at the problem, but it's just one part. As I said, it's very difficult to establish relationships between the identity theft

Information & Ethics committee  Good morning. My involvement with the subject of identity theft started in 2005 with a research project that involved four universities and subject matter experts from the financial sector. My group was assigned the task of defining and measuring identity theft. On the measuring