I'm just looking for affirmation of whether my understanding is correct.
We have an Access to Information Act, which was probably a very prescriptive thing. The government could only have access to certain information. For tax information, for example, it was social insurance number and address. Then as technology expanded, other information was available—IP addresses, for example. Even technology that already existed all of a sudden became relevant. Hydro meter readings are an example, because of grow ops and so on.
Is my understanding correct that essentially the act is out of date because it doesn't take into account all this new information that is available, and that somehow we have to codify what we should be allowed to collect? In fact, we'll always be a step behind, because the technology will always be expanding. To fill those gaps, we'll have to rely on court decisions until we have enough information to amend the act again to deal with things like metadata and so on. Is that a correct way of looking at the process we're involved in here?