Information & Ethics committee  So we have Canadian courts saying they can do it. Our Supreme Court of Canada will presumably render its view as to whether or not Canadian courts get to decide for the rest of the world by asserting jurisdiction in that fashion.

Information & Ethics committee  There are. It's not so much a working group as it's an issue that I've done a lot of writing on. I appeared before the committee on international trade and was one of the panellists at one of the town halls that the government held on the TPP. There are some privacy provisions.

Information & Ethics committee  Those companies still have to meet Canadian standards if they operate in Canada or are collecting information, let's say in the privacy context, from Canadians. It's not that they get a free pass in that regard. It's that, if we take a look at the U.S. strategy, notwithstanding t

Information & Ethics committee  I have a couple of comments. First, I'm not particularly supportive of the right to be forgotten. I have seen it come up in a context. Actually, I sit on the board of CanLII, the Canadian Legal Information Institute, which makes Canada's laws and decisions available online. Those

Information & Ethics committee  Unless you establish clear signalling and a prioritization within the act, you end up with what we have had for the last period of time, which is that privacy too often becomes an afterthought on legislation that has a significant privacy impact. On the legislative side, baking

Information & Ethics committee  I'd start by noting that some of my writings around opt-in consent have tended to focus on the private sector side, where we have legislation in PIPEDA that opens the door to both an opt-out and an opt-in system. It seems to me that the opt-in standard is a more effective one fro

Information & Ethics committee  I'm supportive of that recommendation, and supportive of it for the same reason that I'm supportive of some of the shift toward thinking about access to information in a more wholesome manner that captures some of that as well, which I know the government has talked about. Again

Information & Ethics committee  I'll start with the typical lawyer response. I think it depends. I can envision a couple of scenarios drawn out of your particular example. I can envision a scenario where, let's say in Ontario, OHIP or the provincial Ministry of Health has reason to believe that an individual

Information & Ethics committee  I'll start by saying I think it depends a little bit on who's doing the reporting. Let's start with law enforcement and some of those law enforcement requests. We know that it took many years to even get to the point where law enforcement was tracking some of this kind of informa

Information & Ethics committee  Thanks for the question. On that last bit, I think it's not necessarily an either-or issue. I do think there is unquestionably a role for this committee on some of those issues. For example, one of the other issues that I've been spending a lot of time on lately is the Trans-Paci

Information & Ethics committee  David hits on a good point. In a breach-disclosure regime you do need thresholds. People who are ardently pro-privacy are going to say that if we adopt the lowest of thresholds so that just about everything is going to get reported, not only are there going to be significant cost

Information & Ethics committee  I do. Most of my thoughts, I must admit, are within the private sector context. I haven't been privileged enough to see what takes place within those internal discussions between the Privacy Commissioner and a government department. I do believe—and I guess I would differ with my

Information & Ethics committee  I can start by saying it's always a challenge to keep pace with technology, and we all, I think, recognize that the legislative process moves at a different speed than technology does. That's, I think, a given. Filling in where technology has raced ahead and there is a need for a

Information & Ethics committee  I could start by saying that, interestingly, Canada itself, on the private sector side, for example, has been viewed as a model. That's not to say that PIPEDA is perfect. It is not.

Information & Ethics committee  There is definitely room for improvement there, but if you take a look at some of the competing perspectives on privacy, you see that the European perspective tends to adopt more of a human-rights-oriented approach, and the U.S. perspective tends to be somewhat more commercially