Mr. Micah Lasher at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On April 2nd, 2019. See this statement in context.

April 2nd, 2019 / 4:40 p.m.

Head of Policy and Communications, Sidewalk Labs

I think that obviously the Canadian laws.... PIPEDA is a relatively strong regime and is certainly one that we will scrupulously abide by.

I should be clear. We are not seeking in any way any exemptions from PIPEDA or any other relevant privacy laws in this space, and the governance regime we're proposing would be additive to that. I think the challenge is that PIPEDA and most privacy-related laws don't deal with non-personal information, as is the case with urban data. I think one of the things that we—

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