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

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

April 2nd, 2019 / 4:10 p.m.

Liberal

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith Liberal Beaches—East York, ON

I have some questions about privacy and data protection.

We had a representative from Google here previously. I generally understand the business model of Google. The services are free. They're not exactly free, of course, in the sense that I am giving my personal information in different ways so that advertisers can advertise to me, with Google being able to monetize my information for advertising purposes. Sidewalk Labs is a subsidiary of Google—well, Alphabet, I understand, which is the same idea from my perspective.

I don't understand the business model when I read the materials that say the data collected through cameras and sensors is to be open data, that you believe in a public data trust.

How do you make money?

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