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

On May 29th, 2019. See this statement in context.

May 29th, 2019 / 10:50 a.m.

Liberal

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith Liberal Beaches—East York, ON

With respect to the monetization of personal data, I raised the point with experts yesterday that the business model is the problem. That was put forth by a number of folks, and Apple, I think—Tim Cook—made the same point about the industrial data complex.

Microsoft and Amazon, do you think the business model is itself a problem? You just want to collect more and more information about us. What's the value to us in your collecting so much information about us? Is the business model a problem?

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