Peter Kent at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On February 5th, 2019. See this statement in context.

February 5th, 2019 / 4:55 p.m.

Conservative

Peter Kent Conservative Thornhill, ON

Okay.

Mr. Carroll and Mr. Kint, when the GDPR came into effect last May, a significant number of major mainstream North American news organizations shut down access to their websites by their European subscribers because of the fear that their websites, as they existed, significantly violated some of the new GDPR regulations. To your knowledge—and I ask both of you—through academia or through the marketplace, have any of those companies come to you with requests for advice, guidance, or acknowledging and notifying that they are changing some of their website operations?

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