Information & Ethics committee  If I may add a few words. In the survey we conducted in 2007 in Quebec, we had a few questions about the level of satisfaction regarding the number of institutions that had dealt with victims. Among the victims of identity theft, the levels of satisfaction were much higher toward

Information & Ethics committee  A very brief answer.... I think so far the only country that has really made some investigative investments in trying to disrupt the black market is the United States with the U.S. Secret Service. There is no reason why the RCMP, which is able to leverage large sums of money to c

Information & Ethics committee  As I think has already been alluded to, one of the ways is to make the disclosure of some data held by the financial institutions...but also the retail institutions. We're talking a lot about the financial sector. The financial sector sees a lot of this identity theft happening,

Information & Ethics committee  I'll just say a few words. I think in terms of the lack of data there are two issues. There is the data that exists already, which is fragmented, and that we need to find incentives, sometimes negative incentives, for organizations to make this data public and available, and to a

Information & Ethics committee  Good morning and thank you, Mr. Chairman and honourable members of the committee, for inviting me to participate in these proceedings. As you said, I am the director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminology and I also hold the Canada research chair in security, id