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Information & Ethics committee  We're doing a lot of things. First, we're conducting assessments of the impact certain programs have on privacy, in cooperation with the federal institutions. When they introduce a program that can leave room for an invasion of privacy, they conduct an assessment of it. For exam

February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chantal Bernier

Information & Ethics committee  Indeed, I've been asked to coordinate the four priority projects, each of which is directed by one person. Simply to give you some background, I'll say that these projects concern respectively technology, developments in genetics, developments in national security policy and iden

February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chantal Bernier

Information & Ethics committee  Of course. We have a series of concerns, but they are not concrete in the sense that we have observed some practices that are of concrete preoccupation. However, the question arises obviously from having an intensification of security, which leads to an intensification of the du

February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chantal Bernier

Information & Ethics committee  We've actually funded a research project by Queen's University. I've read the draft report. It's being finalized. It will be released, I understand, before the end of March. So if you want, we would be happy to send you a copy. Obviously it's for dissemination.

February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chantal Bernier

Information & Ethics committee  They said that the equipment would be on a lease service contract. They would not retain any of the equipment, and therefore they did not feel that this was an issue, that they would not keep the equipment.

February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chantal Bernier

Information & Ethics committee  They said that they will not keep it. They said that it would be a lease contract, a service contract, and that therefore past the need--the actual Olympics--they would not have that equipment any more.

February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chantal Bernier

Information & Ethics committee  I can tell you the sense that they gave us is that there would not be a legacy of increased security beyond the need occasioned by the Olympics.

February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chantal Bernier

Information & Ethics committee  On the question of how they were going to manage the information, they said they would ensure that current Canadian laws would be fully, rigorously respected. Their general counsel was there and said that he assumes that responsibility. In relation to surveillance itself, it wi

February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chantal Bernier

Information & Ethics committee  I don't know. I have not seen their budget.

February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chantal Bernier

Information & Ethics committee  I have no idea.

February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chantal Bernier

Information & Ethics committee  I would simply add that indeed it is a work in progress. Last week the privacy commissioners of Canada were together in Ottawa and decided to create a working group precisely to systematically address these concerns together in a concerted fashion.

February 23rd, 2009Committee meeting

Chantal Bernier

Public Safety committee  Thank you. My name is Chantal Bernier. I am the Assistant Privacy Commissioner. Today, our presentation will be given by Ms. Campbell, our Acting General Counsel. Fortunately for us, she is an expert in the field of biometrics and the author of many articles on the subject. So,

February 26th, 2009Committee meeting

Chantal Bernier

Public Safety committee  I'll pass the microphone to my colleague. I have been at the OPC for only two months, so the briefings I have received so far are too superficial to give you a fulsome answer. What I have been told so far is that the separation that the RCMP keeps between the DNA data bank and

February 26th, 2009Committee meeting

Chantal Bernier

Public Safety committee  That is really a principle of Canadian law. That is how our courts have stated the fair balance to be and that is how, for example, the Privacy Act is constructed: that the invasion of privacy may be justified. We know that for governance, policing, and security purposes, a certa

February 26th, 2009Committee meeting

Chantal Bernier

Public Safety committee  I would say that it is precisely the reality of human error that begs for oversight, review, remedies for correction. As the commissioner said before, privacy rights include the right to accurate information as well as the right to have inaccurate information corrected, so your o

May 7th, 2009Committee meeting

Chantal Bernier