Mr. John Lawford at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On December 6th, 2006. See this statement in context.

December 6th, 2006 / 4:15 p.m.

Counsel, Public Interest Advocacy Centre

I'll just speak from PIAC's point of view.

We support having the Privacy Commissioner apprised as soon as possible of a data breach and having the Privacy Commissioner give advice to the company involved, but we do not support the Privacy Commissioner having discretion to make a call on whether notification should be given or not given. They're reluctant so far to do things--

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