It's not in the definition, but it is implied that this has a greater potential for harm and discrimination against individuals. We've looked at this whole bill from the outset, and it's not yet in the purpose statement that privacy is a fundamental right.
We're looking around the corner, and I'm looking to add an amendment. I'm going to add one piece that isn't in here that I think is really important, given where technology is going to be in the next 10 years or so, which is on location data. When we look at that piece of information, location data is everything we have on our phones, our watches and our cars that identifies who we are and where we are.
Going backwards on that, when we look at financial data, it is also evolving. We have open banking in front of the government right now. We've been pushing for that. Open banking is about ensuring that customers have control of their financial data with their consent. That's very much the wording of what we've listed. Customers then have control of that.
If it's not sensitive data, then what are we doing with consent and how we're giving it? I think it's a form of control for Canadians and for people that, when we're looking at privacy as a fundamental right, it is listed most of the time that on your consent, you can move your information somewhere. If your data is being recorded and tracked, it has to be with your consent. To me, that, by its very nature, when it comes to harm or discrimination, is sensitive. Further along in the bill—because we're only on the definitions side of this—we can take that context and debate how that's used or what's going to happen. However, I don't think we should be taking that out of what we deem to be sensitive.
If we go to the potential for harm or discrimination, obviously we're looking at an extra layer of protection for security PIAs, but I think we're really, as a committee, just defining information that is exceedingly being used in identity theft, fraud, stigmatization and discrimination. I think all we're doing is listing that as something we want to protect, and I think what we've been trying to identify are those things.
Mr. Chair, I'm going to talk about it first, but I'd like to add paragraph (i), which would be location data. I'll note why that's important really quickly.
Location data is considered sensitive for several reasons. We have personal security and safety. Location data can reveal where a person lives, works and frequently travels—