Charlie Angus at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On December 6th, 2012. See this statement in context.

December 6th, 2012 / 4:45 p.m.

NDP

Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON

Thank you for that.

Within our privacy regime—and we're looking at possible changes to our privacy regime to protect data—the question of breaches is enormous. There have been some pretty dramatic examples. We found out that in 2005, ChoicePoint sold the information of 160,000 people to an identity-theft ring. In 2004, the same company was involved in a breach of the data of over 128,000 citizens.

What does Acxiom do to protect personal data? I'm sure that you have pretty strong firewalls. Have you had breaches? What happens in the case of these breaches?

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