Dr. José Manuel Fernandez at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On April 29th, 2014. See this statement in context.

April 29th, 2014 / 12:20 p.m.

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Software Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, As an Individual

That figure comes from Symantec, which is an anti-virus company. The 2013 report for Canada reports that figure.

I'm not an expert on how to quantify these things. Some people might say they suspect that figure comes from a party that is interested in maybe growing the size of the problem, but that's probably better answered by some of my colleagues here who actually are specialized in those numbers.

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