I will continue on with the trends. The collection of biometrics at the border is something which the Privacy Commissioner has expressed a great deal of concern about.
It depends a bit on what you mean by a biometric. That's a word that's not used consistently, but it speaks to my broader points. The nature of information is changing and the ability to monitor people is changing as a result of changes in the way we think about identifying people.
Perhaps I could add something historically to emphasize my point.
There was a time, maybe 30 or 40 years ago, when we knew when information was being captured about us because we filled out a form. We were asked for a certain amount of information and we filled our a census form or an application form, or something like that. Now, increasingly, we do not know when that is happening. Furthermore, we don't necessarily know the nature of the information itself. We don't know how we are being identified. One of the larger trends, in addition to those that I mentioned earlier, is that we don't know, as individuals, how organizations are actually identifying us. We don't know how that happens online, and we certainly don't know how it's happening with respect to biometrics. Yet our laws tend to be based on a fairly dated notion of what personal information is and is not, and it's creating challenges for the Privacy Commissioner here and for her colleagues internationally.
I hope that h as addressed part of your question, at any rate.