In the last review of PIPEDA, PIAC suggested that there be different levels, by age, of what could be collected from young people and no-go zones in which information would not even be collected from those under 13. Certainly developmentally speaking, you see that younger kids tend to be very mature and not put much out there. It tends to be the 13- to 15-year-olds who are most at risk.
I'm not sure if education is necessarily.... Certainly we do a lot of it. I do a lot of it myself, but I'm not sure if that's a fair response, because kids will say, “We're forced to use this technology at school. My mom makes me go on Facebook to check out my cousins so I can tell her what's going on, and at the same time I'm yelled at and told I shouldn't put any information out there.” In the studies we've done with young people, it's quite clear that the platform is designed to create incentives to disclose.
I think we have to look at those incentives and really evaluate them, and this goes to the comment earlier about the need to really limit purposes. We create honey pots, especially with young people, and corporations collect everything because of these very broadly crafted clauses. If we were much more careful about the purposes of the collection, not just from a transparency point of view but by saying, “No, there are some things you just can't do”, particularly with young people, I think that would go a long way.