Information & Ethics committee  There is a potential for concern. If information about the presence of a Wi-Fi access point can be at all linked to a particular individual, either individually or in combination with other bits of information, then it would be potentially personal information and therefore poten

Information & Ethics committee  --but it really is a separate technology and a separate service.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it is. When you have a device such as a cellphone or a BlackBerry, it has often built into it the ability to help you locate yourself. Most modern devices now can use three technologies simultaneously: GPS, if you can see the GPS satellites; the cellphone tower information

Information & Ethics committee  In their statement to us and to all the data protection authorities in April, they said basically that they were taking advantage of the fact that they were driving the cars around anyway,--

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. There's a variety of different dangers. There are obviously personal safety dangers. If people are able to use location technologies in order to track someone's physical whereabouts and they want to do that person harm, if the data is not properly controlled, then the

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, we did. We got a very good reception. We were able to witness how the data was being stored, how it was being encrypted. We got full technical support, which is what we were looking for. We were there to do a technical analysis. We got full support. We were given instruction

Information & Ethics committee  It doesn't happen overnight. We know that there are a number of areas in which Google and many other companies are working. There's a real emphasis on personalized services, various kinds of services, services that you will carry in your pocket. So these are location-based servic

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. Commissioner Stoddart was not in attendance with me in California. It was myself and Dr. Whalen, who's also a technical analyst. What we saw there was what is described in the report and the statement that we've read. We saw examples--and we only loo