Information & Ethics committee  First of all, we have a very well-developed training program, and that means on both legal issues and technological issues, as well as on writing decisions. We also have a strong component on the four priorities. Each is led by someone who chairs a working group on that priorit

Information & Ethics committee  I would start by saying that the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is not the only organization to understand the importance of establishing a set of international privacy standards. There is no doubt about that, given the fact that the information flows all around the

Information & Ethics committee  Are you referring to the investigation in HRSDC, or are you referring to the wireless audit that I've just referred to?

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. There are two things. First of all we have a commissionally launched complaint that's into HRSDC as well as Justice. In the case of the USB key, the USB key was lost in the legal services of HRSDC. Therefore, the Department of Justice is also a respondent. So that is an inv

Information & Ethics committee  You will find that in our investigation report. When it is finished, we will be able to establish that.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for your question because this is good news. This is a good news story. Indeed the complaints have increased, yet through the efficiencies we have managed to build into our processes through the modernization process the commissioner was just referring to, we have been

Information & Ethics committee  You have just named it. Clearly the delays by the respondents are a huge factor and a factor over which we have little control. We do make a point of insisting on them meeting their timelines. But going back to further questions on what is the impact and what is the pressure, th

Information & Ethics committee  We would break down the protective measures into three categories: physical, electronic, and procedural. Physical measures concern all the areas where sensitive information, personal information, is held. They ensure that the access is properly monitored and that drawers and fil

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Commissioner. Yes. I think this story is quite eloquent. You may recall, if you have followed the press clippings around our work, that in 2011 we issued a report of findings on Google WiFi. We found that as Google was rolling out Street View, they captured—acciden

Information & Ethics committee  First of all, I would again talk about our website. We have a checking-in page that lists all the redress mechanisms when you travel, whichever way you travel, for occurrences such as, for example, the use of inaccurate information. In fact, we would be happy to bring you copies

Information & Ethics committee  The main point is that this information was collected outside the legislative authority of CATSA. There is absolutely no legal requirement to take it. It is not illegal to carry this amount of cash domestically. We were told that the reason they did that was almost for convenienc

Information & Ethics committee  There are different points. As you know, we are coming to one of the first timelines, which is the production of joint privacy principles by the end of May. Then there are measures throughout the action plan on a longer timeline, and those will eventually have to produce privacy

Information & Ethics committee  We are working with the Americans right now to develop...not we, not our office, but the Government of Canada is working on the development of these joint principles, and we are regularly kept informed by the public servants in the Government of Canada who are working on this. We

Information & Ethics committee  Well, they're a sovereign country, of course, and we keep informed about their work in the sense of a context for ours.

Information & Ethics committee  While waiting for the act to come into force, we have started building our capacity to respond to the investigations we will have to do under the act. The commissioner just referred to a day of training we are planning on June 20. For many months we have had a working group spe