Evidence of meeting #157 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was human.

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On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Brent Mittelstadt  Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, As an Individual
An Tang  Chair, Artificial Intelligence Working Group, Canadian Association of Radiologists
André Leduc  Vice-President, Government Relations and Policy, Information Technology Association of Canada

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Vice-President, Government Relations and Policy, Information Technology Association of Canada

André Leduc

It's not that we closed our eyes. Instead, priority was given to the development of bills that were technology-neutral.

No one could have predicted the quantity of data and transactions an individual can generate in a day because, for example, the smartphone had not yet been invented. As consumers or citizens, we use our phone several times a day, and each time, we exchange data with the service provider we are using.

Every year, we produce more data than we have so far generated in the entire history of humanity. Thus, in 2018, we produced more data than there has been in the entire history of humanity since the very first records until 2017.

We knew that data was valuable, but no one predicted the increase in this data related to interactions between consumers or citizens and businesses, all facilitated by telecommunications technologies.

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Liberal

Michel Picard Liberal Montarville, QC

In other words, if I interpret...

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Zimmer

Okay, Monsieur Picard, we're over time.

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Liberal

Michel Picard Liberal Montarville, QC

I had a good one.

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Voices

Oh, oh!

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Zimmer

I'm sorry, everybody. I know we could keep going on this. I think the conversation today was another good one on the really cool aspects of technology and where technology is going, but also the challenges of privacy and security that Monsieur Picard brought up today. That's our challenge.

Thanks for appearing, and hopefully we can have you back again to have a more fulsome discussion.

The meeting is adjourned.