Justice committee  We would like to thank you, Chair and honourable members, for inviting us to speak before you today on this important issue. My name is Tamir Israel. I am staff counsel with CIPPIC. With me is David Fewer, our acting director. We apologize for not providing you with a brief of o

Justice committee  Absolutely. It's open for you to add them into this bill if you feel you would like to do that. The two Criminal Code provisions we've seen in other penal statutes in other jurisdictions that have done a great deal to help victim problems are a right to a local police report or a

Justice committee  Right. We're not worried about individuals being charged with an offence here. We're worried about creditors—

Justice committee  Innocent third parties who are victims of identity theft. Just something they can show to their creditors to say they've been a victim of identity theft, so here are—

Justice committee  In other jurisdictions they have done it through the court system. Certainly if there was a standardized regulatory body that could issue something official that was legally recognized—

Justice committee  No, no. I'm saying that would be another—

Justice committee  Equifax doesn't accept anything. They have a pretty high standard. They like to conduct their own investigations. In other jurisdictions they've found that this is something they can do through the penal codes, and that was an effective way of addressing it.

Justice committee  Certainly, it's a good point. We're not asking for a finding of innocence. This is not a response to an individual being charged with an offence. Maybe there are other venues that could address this, not through the criminal system. It's just an official statement from the court

Information & Ethics committee  Good morning. My name is Tamir Israel, and I am a staff lawyer with the Samuelson-Glushco Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, CIPPIC for short. CIPPIC is grateful for this opportunity to present its views on the privacy implications of social media to the commit

Information & Ethics committee  I'll talk a little slower. The growing importance and benefits of social media to Canadians cannot be understated. These are far-reaching and permeate every aspect of our individual, social, and political lives. The innovative and commercial growth of such networks should not b

Information & Ethics committee  Well, it's definitely a challenging arena. I agree with Adam to the extent that we should be putting in place flexible regimes that don't shut down legitimate innovation and these types of things. I'm also on Facebook, and I like the services. I think there's a gap between the

Information & Ethics committee  It is an excellent question. I fully agree it is important to do a little bit more to simplify privacy policies. There's been talk of trying to standardize certain terms that have similar meanings for different companies but that are described in different ways in order to make i

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. It's a very good question. I think that in many contexts we do get a good level of compliance from industry, but the problem is that sometimes in the social networking context and the Internet context, some of the mechanisms that it takes to comply with the Privacy Co

Information & Ethics committee  I would say that it's a problem, yes, but part of the problem is that it's a two-tiered problem. These sites evolve at such a rapid pace that it's hard to.... You need something more flexible, so that the Privacy Commissioner can adapt. Six months in Internet time is a decade in

Information & Ethics committee  That's a very good question. I think it's something that really needs a lot of closer study. The same issue is starting to arise in the child gaming context. The marketing materials used to be easier to get because companies would have their practices out in their marketing mat