That's a good question.
It's not always easy to figure out. Hence the importance of making sure that, whenever you give your credit card number to a supplier online, you have to read all the fine print, so to speak, because, at the end of the day, you are giving an organization your legitimate consent to share your personal information.
It's vital that, when using technology, consumers be extremely careful with their personal information. For that reason, Bill S-4 has a provision meant to protect young people, because they are the most vulnerable to these kinds of violations.
It's challenging for a government to put in place laws and regulations to protect people in their online communications. We believe this legislation gives the commissioner the powers needed to protect Canadians.
It's an ongoing debate in society and the media, not to mention within families. Whenever a breach of personal information occurs, we have to try to understand what went wrong and adopt new measures to protect individuals.