Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank both witnesses.
My first question is for Ms. Denham, but Mr. McEvoy may answer as well, if he wishes.
Madam Commissioner, you have drawn our attention to crimes related to the use of data and profiling.
The legislation seems to be unclear about the use of data taken from Facebook. Categories of people are created in order to target them with advertising or to influence them to vote one way or another. The argument made to justify the use of this data is that people voluntarily posted that information on their Facebook profile.
People voluntarily indicate on their profile that they are married, that they have children, or a red or blue car, for instance. These companies will ask what crime it is to categorize everyone who has a blue car. How can we say that a crime was committed in connection with the data or profiling if that information was only used to target people with a mere ad?