Nathaniel Erskine-Smith at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On October 23rd, 2018. See this statement in context.

October 23rd, 2018 / 12:15 p.m.

Liberal

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith Liberal Beaches—East York, ON

I guess that was a bit before where I was going. In 2013—and I want to get to some other questions, but this was bugging me and I didn't ask it when you were here last time—when Jennifer Stoddart was the Privacy Commissioner, she made a few key recommendations for reforming PIPEDA. One was requiring that organizations publicly disclose their co-operation in sharing information with governments.

You're not going to have this information today, but subparagraph 7(3)c.1 of PIPEDA states that an organization may disclose to government without the knowledge and consent of an individual that information has been disclosed.

Can you provide to this committee the number of times Google has shared information with the Canadian government without individuals' knowledge and consent, pursuant to this section?

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