On the point of information purchased illegally, it's simply seeking to add greater clarity, but when it comes to information that has been published or broadcast only to a selected audience, I think we have a great example in the news lately, which is Facebook. We heard officials from CSE confirm that the information obtained by firms like Cambridge Analytica would be included under the current definition of “publicly available information”. I think it's important to add that clarity to the definition.
A lot was made by officials—and we get to that later—of this concept of the reasonable expectation of privacy. Speaking to my subamendment, I think that's why it's important to have it as part of the definition. In this era of social media, when we're talking about information that could arguably be publicly available, but where the person had no intent of broadcasting it to a larger audience and then scooped up in the activities carried out under part 3 of the bill, it's pretty fair to say that, if we want to take the privacy of Canadians seriously, this is the type of robust definition that's required.