Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, there is a whole range of issues here. I've spoken in the past on this. There is a real burden on individuals, ordinary people, to determine what level of protection their communication has. When we send a postcard, we don't expect much privacy. If we send a sealed letter,

Information & Ethics committee  I'm influenced mostly by the operations in B.C. and Alberta, where it is in the office. The office makes the orders. I see no reason why that couldn't function in Canada. I'd be willing to listen to arguments on why a tribunal is a better way. I can see it in a way. It allows t

Information & Ethics committee  Professor Emeritus, actually.

Information & Ethics committee  That's both an important and difficult question. First of all, most people don't know that a lot of information is going off to the States. We got some publicity when the Office of the Privacy Commissioner pointed out that some of this was happening, and as I mentioned, in the B.

Information & Ethics committee  That also happens, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not sure exactly how to phrase this, but I guess it's a political comment. It seemed necessary, for a variety of reasons, for the B.C. government to outsource health information from the start. I would have asked if they took into account sufficiently the kinds of questions y

Information & Ethics committee  You have to go as far as you need to go. If you contract with a company and it violates the agreement by either storing it where it shouldn't be stored or allowing access that is not allowed by the law, you have to go to the limit of the law in pursuing those companies.

Information & Ethics committee  The parallel of that is the opt-in or opt-out boxes. When you sign on to something, and you don't look carefully, they have already filled in what they would like you to agree to. There are x's appearing in boxes, and I've always objected. This is really something that does requi

Information & Ethics committee  If they move to order-making power, that would be a significant and major change.

Information & Ethics committee  Of course, there's a federal institution, which I think is the Canada Health Infoway, which has been providing money and advice, and they've taken the benefits of work in different parts of the country. It's clearly an area that should have a uniform system so they can talk to

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think it's too soon either, although I do agree, in part, with respect to health information, we're just in the working stage of building these large systems. An enormous amount of money is going into them. Requirements are being put on physicians' offices. There are stil

Information & Ethics committee  Usually, yes. You raised some examples, and there are many, many examples of the kinds of monitoring that can go on, some of which is related to the work process in which employees have rights. I'm not sure this exactly answers your question, but one of the arguments for employe

Information & Ethics committee  I think, by and large, the process in the Office of the Privacy Commissioner is a process about which only the person making the complaint and the organization or company against which the complaint is made really know what's going on. They're the ones who heard the judgment. The