Information & Ethics committee  Thanks for having me.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. I think I want to leave you with one message today in my opening remarks, and that is that I really believe that the issue you're diving into of the particularities of the vulnerabilities that were shown and demonstrated through the case of Cambridge Analytica's use

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. Sorry to be—

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely. Let me just finally conclude here, and Ben's going to talk about these policy proposals, which I agree with. They're going to involve immediate fixes such as ad transparency and new data rights regimes, regulatory changes to give rights to Canadians over the data that

Information & Ethics committee  I think we need to step back and look at who used to determine this. Up until the rise of the social web and the decline of legacy media that has paralleled it and is intimately related to it, we entrusted this window of acceptable discourse to a small number of legacy 20th centu

Information & Ethics committee  I believe so, yes. This has been discussed and proposed in California, where the so-called Blade Runner law would force all automated accounts to self-identify as being automated. I think in this case, transparency is the solution. There are all sorts of potential positive uses o

Information & Ethics committee  I would just say that I think we're seeing the emergence of three competing regulatory regimes: a European regulatory regime that's in many ways articulated through GDPR but also through other provisions; an American regime, now largely unregulated in structure, that supports the

Information & Ethics committee  I agree completely with both elements of that. That really is the first and easiest step in the lead-up to in the next election.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Very briefly, I think Ben Scott and I agree on most of this range of policy responses here, but on this one there might be a bit of distance between us. In the long run I'm not sure we can make that distinction between political and non-political ads in a viable and sustainable w

Information & Ethics committee  I have a quick point on trust of information. I think it's pretty clear that trustworthy information that is known by a large number of citizens is critical to a democracy. We have to have some baseline of trustworthy information on which we are making democratic decisions about

Information & Ethics committee  Well, I don't think it's been hacked. I think it's just that the marketplace for our information is structured very differently than it used to be. In that old model, we had all sorts of ways of and mechanisms for limiting and regulating speech during elections, for foreign money

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think we should be making regulatory change based on whether the claims of one particular company to do one particular thing using one particular database at one particular moment were effective or not. I think principles, such as the consent and knowability that Ben ju

Information & Ethics committee  I think digital literacy campaigns are incredibly important, but only if done at scale. Who funds that scale? That could be incentivized to the platform companies to put money into that. There's a real government role there, too, for a large-scale digital literacy campaign, not j