In Alberta, I think we have essentially the same situation as was described in B.C. and Quebec. The legislation protects everybody's personal information, regardless of age. We do have the idea of a mature minor who is able to thoughtfully exercise his or her rights under the legislation, who can make access requests, for example, and make a complaint with our office. We had that recently—a matter that resulted in an order in our public sector. It had to do with a transgender student who made a complaint to our office.
The legislation in Alberta does not specifically address this issue of children. Are they particularly vulnerable? That's a matter I would address. Sometimes a self-reported breach comes in, and in terms of notifying individuals, that is a factor that I take into consideration. Whose information was breached? Do we have a vulnerable population? Are there seniors, dependants, adults, children? There are lots of potentially vulnerable populations.
I will say that a couple of years ago, we participated, along with my co-panellists, in the Global Privacy Enforcement Network sweep of Internet sites and apps, specifically those that were targeting children, and we found some disturbing results. A lot of these websites and apps are collecting information of children. They're not particularly transparent about what they're collecting, nor are they necessarily collecting only the information that is necessary for their purpose, for example, the service that the app is producing. That doesn't necessarily require anything special, or amendments to the existing legislation, because I'm not sure that some of those apps and websites are complying with existing legislation. I think you can get at some of those issues through existing legislation.