Luckily, as was mentioned, we have other governments that are ahead of the game. The United States and Britain have put into place processes that approach the release of data sets in a more structured way, and they take into consideration those sorts of complications and try to anticipate them. As assistant commissioner Bernier mentioned, we've had cases in which we've had to take steps to make sure that data sets weren't released, simply because there was the potential for that sort of re-identification, but it is really an opportunity to structure our information holdings in a more efficient way to allow us to handle them in such a way that they can be given to the public for further processing, rather than trying to avoid crises and avoid complications.
On February 14th, 2011. See this statement in context.