The Privacy Commissioner pointed out to you that every public servant above a certain level has to have human resources and finance training. Do they need privacy training? How do you create a culture of privacy, a culture of concern and awareness of privacy? Who are the champions of privacy in federal government institutions? It's not the deputy minister most of the time. Who is it?
You need privacy champions in place. I'm thinking about what you said about bureaucracy. Homeland Security revealed in the last couple of days that air marshals are being bumped off flights they are supposed to be on because they are on a no-fly list. I just shake my head. That's something we've just been reading about.
When I hear the Department of Homeland Security guy, who sat in front of me and spoke at the privacy commissioners' big international conference, asking why I'm worried about fingerprints, since they're not personal information and you leave them behind as you go around the world, I just shake my head. And he parades around as a bit of a privacy advocate.
I heard his chief privacy officer speak at a big security conference in Victoria in February. It was the most useless stuff I've ever heard. It was totally vacuous.