It's a problem for kids because of their greater vulnerability. We've made a number of recommendations in terms of making sure that we're not using these behavioural techniques of nudging. We shouldn't be nudging individuals generally, but certainly not children, into making bad decisions and making bad privacy decisions. There needs to be work on that.
There have been reports on social media being addictive and being addictive for children generally. Sometimes the business model is to try to encourage them to stay longer, because that's what generates more revenues. That has to be taken into consideration with children who have been online more and more during the pandemic, and since then with school. I've seen it and parents have seen it.
We need to adjust to this new reality as parents, children and society as a whole, so that there's a greater awareness of what this means and what their rights are.
Bill C-27 proposes a right to disposal. That's informing.... When I say that children have a right to be children, that's what I'm alluding to. Children do things online. If it stays online forever, then they're treated as adults right from when they're teenagers. It stays forever, and it could be used against them for jobs and so on and so forth.
We need to deal with this. Bill C-27 will deal with it to some extent, but we certainly need to build greater awareness of it as we are living more and more in a digital world. It brings innovation and it brings great things, but we need to be well equipped to deal with it and we need to learn about it. I would hope to see mandatory training in schools early on, so that individuals can get the tools early on.
We'll get these reflexes. We're going to ask questions. We're going to ask why they need this information. We're going to learn to see what a good privacy policy is, and if it's not, we're going to learn how to complain about it so that it could become a good privacy policy in the future.
That way, we're creating ambassadors for privacy everywhere.