Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much. I'm the principal investigator of MediaSmart's Young Canadians in a Wired World research project. We've been collecting data about young people's experiences of online privacy for the past 12 years, which coincidentally means that we've been collecting data

Information & Ethics committee  Okay, I'm almost done. I urge the committee to look also at the uses of aggregate data, because that's how those profiles that Professor Scassa was talking about run. Personal information isn't the only privacy problem that we face online. Third, I would suggest that section 3

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Thanks. Actually, I did some research that was funded by the Privacy Commissioner's office. The idea was to take kids to the privacy policies on a number of sites they frequented to see if they could understand them. My research assistant is a 24-year-old. She's a university

Information & Ethics committee  Definitely. It's available online.

Information & Ethics committee  Sure.

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. When you use this data, you're collecting all this personal information. You're tracking population trends. Then you divide everybody up into categories, and then you treat them differently because they belong to a category. Earlier a concern was raised that this type of te

Information & Ethics committee  As was mentioned earlier, online privacy issues are really nested in broader concerns about marketing, citizenship, human rights, social interaction, democracy, democratic dialogue, and those types of things. If you go back to the history of data protection, it was always assumed

Information & Ethics committee  Sure, I'll take that one. There were recommendations with the first PIPEDA review to have a tiered consent mechanism that recognized differences in ages. The suggestion was that under a certain age, companies shouldn't be able to collect any information at all. Then as kids beco

Information & Ethics committee  One of the problems with answering that question is the lack of transparency. I would like a lot more information about the business plan behind these sites—and certainly describing how the back engine works—and then I would feel more comfortable in responding. What I can tell

Information & Ethics committee  As part of the young Canadians project, we talked to 10 key informant teachers across the country, so I actually have good data on this. They perceive it as a privacy issue, because when the walls of the classroom become transparent, you lose the ability to create a safe space wh

Information & Ethics committee  Perhaps I can make just one quick comment. If you look at identity theft, typically the solution is always “Give me more of your information so I can make sure it's you”, which just creates more leaks, which just increases the risk that the information will flow and be used agai

Information & Ethics committee  The study was conducted with children between the ages of 11 and 17, and parents with kids of those ages. It's available online, and I'd be happy to make it available to the committee. We also collected a lot of data about cyber-bullying, which is what you're alluding to, the pro

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. First I'd like to start by commending the committee for undertaking this study, I think it's incredibly important. I'd also like to commend Ms. Lemoine for her really important testimony before this committee and I really appreciate that you came and shared