Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much, and welcome back to our committee.
One of the big challenges we face is this. When somebody downloads an app, they click a check mark for terms and conditions. There's education, increasingly, about what should or shouldn't be posted on social media. However, there's this grey world out there as to what information is actually being harvested or accessed—location and otherwise. In fact, it was this committee that looked into the fact that cellphone location information was shared with the government during the COVID-19 pandemic. It detailed people's trips to liquor stores, grocery stores and other public places.
How do we reconcile with this now “big data” world, where somebody downloads an app and checks a box, and all of a sudden their information goes to something we don't really understand? What are the impacts of where that data is going?