Information & Ethics committee  Thank you so much for the invitation and for having me here today, Mr. Chair and committee. I'm very happy to speak to you today on behalf of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group. We're a coalition of 45 Canadian civil society organizations dedicated to protecting

Information & Ethics committee  I'd re-emphasize the question of IntelCenter, a U.S.-based company that we know the RCMP contracted with. We have very little information about what they did with that company and with that database. That's the only other company I can specifically point to, but it adds an extr

Information & Ethics committee  Excuse me. I have been having trouble hearing the questions in the English interpretation. I'm not sure if others are having the same problem for audio as well.

Information & Ethics committee  We would agree completely with your characterization of the dangers posed by facial recognition technology. We see just layers upon layers of concerns. As has been pointed out by other witnesses today, especially Dr. McPhail, the idea is that there are layers of problems regard

Information & Ethics committee  First of all, we need private sector privacy laws that are based on a human rights approach; that are based clearly on proportionality and necessity; that have clear rules around consent; that bring in oversight of artificial intelligence and regulation of artificial intelligence

Information & Ethics committee  First of all, we think we need a broader consultation to decide what are no-go zones. As we've said, we believe a clear part of that no-go zone would be on the use of facial recognition for mass surveillance. Beyond that, there needs to be oversight in terms of ensuring that as l

Information & Ethics committee  We had a follow-up conversation with the director of policy in the minister's office, but it was more of a listening session rather than clearly stating what the minister's actions would be. The only new information we obtained was clarification that CBSA was not using real-time

Information & Ethics committee  That's a good question. We know that the RCMP committed to making improvements to its policies, even though they did reject the overall finding that they're responsible for the lawfulness of third party technology. We haven't seen anything released publicly about that yet, and i

Information & Ethics committee  Our expertise is more on the public sector side, so I'll speak more to that. There needs to be clear establishment of no-go zones, again, for example, in terms of mass surveillance of public places. There need to be clear rules around the issuance of privacy impact assessments.

Information & Ethics committee  While it's true that there are rules in place to minimize mass surveillance from those agencies, as was mentioned, in recent draft guidance to law enforcement agencies, the Privacy Commissioner raised the concern that because the laws around this are currently a patchwork, there

National Defence committee  Thank you very much, Chair, for the opportunity to speak to the committee today. The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group is a Canadian coalition that serves as a watchdog around national security, anti-terrorism and civil liberties in Canada. We have long-standing exp

National Defence committee  Just very briefly, it's clear that there's a role for the federal government in supporting private companies in increasing their cybersecurity and protecting national security. We think that one thing that's key to this is that there's trust and transparency around that process s

National Defence committee  I think a lot is riding on that word “target” and what you were speaking about in terms of what the CSE presented to the committee. It's true that the CSE, through its mandate and through the CSE Act, cannot target Canadians, but in collecting signals intelligence and in carryi

National Defence committee  I'll just quickly say no. Several of the problems I raised were actually enshrined in Bill C-59, the creation of the CSE act. One of the things we think needs to be done is to bolster the powers of both NSIRA and the intelligence commissioner to be able to review these kinds of a

National Defence committee  Thank you very much for your question. There are multiple ways in which we collect that kind of information. For some of it, before the creation of the intelligence commissioner, there was the CSE commissioner, who initiated review, and it's the independent review and oversig