Information & Ethics committee  Doubtless one could be by DFAIT. We simply did a sampling of a couple and found this, but we don't have an exhaustive list.

Information & Ethics committee  My understanding from the study we did, which focused on personal information protection, was that when we talk about security clearances we talk about them in terms of Canadian standards. This means meeting the independent standard the Canadian government sets rather than simply

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I think with regard to identity theft there's a consensus. What I'm saying is neither new nor original. Identity theft is really one of the huge, serious law-and-order issues facing Canadians. The cost of identity theft has now just skyrocketed. A lot of it is borne by the i

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. If I go to the children's online privacy issue, this has been a concern of many privacy advocates, many forward thinkers, for five or six years now, as we watch the Internet companies moving into the huge market representing our children and especially the group called “twee

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think my office has ever looked into that, no.

Information & Ethics committee  I can't answer that question, Mr. Chairman. I've pointed out many times that the Government of Canada has a very opaque system for sharing personal information with governments abroad. It's one of the recommendations for reform of the Privacy Act. I think the law talks about an

Information & Ethics committee  I don't believe the Privacy Act places any limits on the kind of information that can be shared abroad.

Information & Ethics committee  The one coming up is going to look at how this system was administrated--for example, how many people went through it, the criteria on which they could fly or not fly, how many made use of the recourses in what I think is called the Office of Reconsideration. It's basically how t

Information & Ethics committee  My report didn't include such a breakdown. Now, the passport office itself may have that kind of breakdown. We were looking at their practices, their approach to protecting privacy. Any particular incidents would be tracked by that agency.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, that is correct.

Information & Ethics committee  There is, shall we say, an ongoing dialogue, Mr. Chairman. We learned last week that the trial database, which was going to be shared with the United States, or situated in the United States just for the trial of those 500 people who've signed up, was being repatriated into Canad

Information & Ethics committee  That's my understanding. It's going on in B.C; it involves 500 volunteers, and it is still being studied.

Information & Ethics committee  It's an ongoing concern of ours. It was one of the big themes of our annual report about two years ago. Certainly as RFIDs spread through the marketplace we will be monitoring them very closely. Right now we understand they're being introduced into the merchandise supply chain

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it is.

Information & Ethics committee  Doubtless there would be in many secure establishments, but I don't know offhand which ones; we haven't inventoried them. But it's getting to be a fairly commonly used technology.