Information & Ethics committee  I wouldn't limit it to young people. This isn't about infantilizing adults or saying that people are stupid. This is a group of well-educated people in this room, and I'm sure most of us have no idea what we've agreed to in the privacy policies we've agreed to and would not have the capacity to understand most of the things that are being done with our data; nor would the data service providers be able to provide us with a comprehensible explanation of it.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm a lawyer. Sure, legal actions are good. I am certainly never against opening up a panoply of remedies for citizens. However, the reality of civil actions is that most people can't afford them anyway, so who would use those mechanisms? Maybe we'll be able to use them for classes and we'll get public interest organizations that can use them.

Information & Ethics committee  We threw around the term “right to be forgotten” pretty easily just a minute ago; I did it, too. Just to be clear, to say what we mean.... What do we mean by a right to be forgotten? Even in the EU currently, without thinking about what's going to happen in 2018, it's not really a right to be forgotten.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think meaningful consent is real. I don't think you can have informed consent in the environment we're living in, and we won't have it in the future, because meaningful consent is informed consent, and you can't be informed of things you can't understand. The best-intentioned industry players cannot explain things like how the Facebook algorithm decided to allow people to place ads for “Jew haters” as a group.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I agree. I think the right to be forgotten is going to become more and more relevant the more complex data collection and profiling systems become.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. Together with Professor Valerie Steeves, I co-lead a seven-year project funded by SSHRC called the eQuality project. It's focused on understanding how big data practices, especially targeted advertising, affect young people's online interactions and can set them up for conflict and discrimination.

Status of Women committee  I'll jump in there. The other thing we have to be conscious of is that I don't think we actually want to be keeping kids from sexually explicit material. I think there's a lot of information that's necessary for kids to know about sexual activity and sexual health, which I distinguish from violent pornography.

Status of Women committee  Yes, that's the thing: it's a kind of a tragedy of the commons problem, where, when you and I make individual decisions in individual situations, and we think we're fine because we've agreed to what we've done, the implications of what we've done, our choices, can be part of what aggregates.

Status of Women committee  Certainly.

Status of Women committee  The heart of the issue is misogyny. The heart of the issue is representation of rape or sexual assault as sex. We shouldn't be confused about that. That should not be confused. That's the heart of it. It's overlain by all kinds of other intersections, such as racism, classism, and ableism.

Status of Women committee  The sorts of things we're doing as damage control, which Matthew gave us a really good rundown on, have other implications, but aside from that, I think my answer to everything, really, as you may remember—I said this the last time too—is to end patriarchy, and then we won't have to see unwanted pornography.

Status of Women committee  Is violent pornography an issue?

Status of Women committee  The other thing at the federal level, of course, is that we have the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. We could think more about giving them more power, about giving them real enforcement authority and the authority to deal with algorithmic curation kinds of issues as well.

Status of Women committee  We can look at “the right to be forgotten” in the EU. An example is the Google case in Spain, where Google was upset that EU law was applying to their situation, because they didn't think their presence in Spain was sufficient to justify the application of that particular directive.

Status of Women committee  That's an interesting question. It's a point for obfuscation, I think, that corporations like to use: multiple jurisdictions, hard to keep track.... Yes, agreed, but when you are doing business in a particular jurisdiction, you have to expect to abide by the laws in that jurisdiction.