Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly. This will tie in and build off of this. I think one thing to remember for the Canadian context is that the fact that we have the Privacy Act and PIPEDA helps us to delineate using data within government versus in private. I don't want us to start losing track of tha

Information & Ethics committee  This is informed by the fact that I have the Sidewalk Toronto project in my neighbourhood. Can you imagine that after a year of these kinds of concerns on the clarity—nobody understands what this project even is—it would still be going forward? What would be sensible would be t

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely, and to say you have these things.... Let's say you have GDPR. Maybe six months ago everybody told me only good things about GDPR. In the last six months, I've had conversations about where there might be some challenges and where we can do better. Look at what's wor

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly. In terms of being clear, I think one of the things that this need to act does to people is that then everybody leaves everything too ambiguous. When you leave things ambiguous, it's not good for.... If I'm a company and it's not clear to me what is legal or what is the

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely not, and we should not.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it does. Just to expand a bit, this is not one data that I'm holding here. I understand that we like to talk about data because it helps us get a handle on what we're talking about, but we need to realize how far down the road some of these companies are with the technolog

Information & Ethics committee  To build on what Maurice opened with, the major theme is power asymmetry. Knowing that we're sitting with this big power asymmetry, technology entrenches those things. Anything that's going to take what exists now and just entrench it further will only accelerate all of these neg

Information & Ethics committee  This is early days thinking of this for me, but we are talking about ownership, control of data. We need to start thinking about usage. We need specificity from people as to what they're doing with data and to start to negotiate at a more granular level what can be done with peop

Information & Ethics committee  The issue is bigger than privacy. You need to go up a notch and get into ownership and control because we're talking about issues of power. Privacy is definitely an issue. I'm going to give you the example from the Sidewalk Toronto project that concerns me and might indicate a

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much for having me today. I am here on behalf of Tech Reset Canada. We are an advocacy organization looking at the innovation economy, the public good and the impacts of the innovation economy on our society. I am really happy to get to talk to you today, because