We do it in many ways. Perhaps I could talk about our four priority privacy issues, all of which now touch the online world. They're in no particular order.
The first one is genetic information. With the proliferation of genetic websites, genetic testing, and medical advances related to our genetic composition, and the ethical issues around them, our genetic information is of course the ultimate personal information. This is clearly a huge issue that is coming up for society. We see it being commercialized already. It comes under both of our acts. We're continuing to follow those issues. We would like to investigate a genetic website. We haven't received a complaint yet, and there are many challenges in doing this. That is one issue.
A second one, of course, is national security. However serious personal information issues have become since 9/11, it's not clear at this point that they're going to radically improve in the near future. In fact, they may get significantly worse, as we talk about drones surveilling borders and increasing database exchange and so on. Continuing to look at national security issues is very important for my office. Increasingly, this involves online transfers. I think that's your particular issue.
Questions of identity integrity are another priority. This involves the consequences of having multiple online identities and the extent to which you have to share your information online as you browse from site to site, and also the extent to which advertisers or website hosts can scrape your personal information as you pass by and then perhaps sell it and so on. This was the subject of our ongoing consultation on behavioural advertising this year.
Finally, information technology is a general priority, an attempt to follow all technological developments in their implication on personal information privacy. Perhaps the most obvious these days is facial recognition technology, which again is based on transmission over the Internet. There's the smart grid, on which the Supreme Court brought out a decision just a few days ago. It was a very divided decision, but finally the majority said it was all right for the I think Alberta police to use information from the Alberta hydroelectric system about the consumption of electricity in the house of someone who was using electricity to grow marijuana.
Those are some of the ways that we are looking into Internet applications.