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Information & Ethics committee Because of the technical nature of spam and spyware and dictionary attacks and e-mail harvesting, which are the areas our office will have to have the mandate to oversee, there's a lot of work to get ready for that: educating our inquiry staff, who are at the front end, as they t
March 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee We felt that the most important readiness activity was developing public education materials and internal fact sheets and training programs for our front-line staff, because they need to understand this area of the law and these kinds of risks and attacks on computer systems.
March 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee Under the legislation, under ECPA, our office doesn't get any new enforcement powers; it doesn't change the way we're structured or how we approach investigations, but individuals can file complaints with our office about unsolicited commercial e-mail, about the unauthorized use
March 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee That's right. It's also relevant to other technology investigations that are under way at this time.
March 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee I'm the assistant privacy commissioner responsible for the private sector side of the office, so I can just answer very briefly that my colleague Chantal Bernier or the commissioner will follow up with a more complete answer. It is also my understanding that the cameras will be r
March 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee That is correct. I think it would have been irresponsible of us, given the complexity of this legislation, not to turn our minds and start preparing the public education materials and training our staff, because it wouldn't be something that we could just do instantly. As I said
March 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee We feel that we've already spent $100,000 in this fiscal year in preparing for the Electronic Commerce Protection Act. It's been spent in diverting some internal resources away from other projects to prepare public education materials to turn our minds to the kinds of technical i
March 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee I could tell you that the $100,000 has mostly been spent in our communications branch and our research and education budget, which is where our technical analysts reside.
March 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee We've diverted some internal resources from other projects, some of our policy work, in order to prepare the materials and to prepare our inquiry staff for the kinds of questions that we expect to receive from the public.
March 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee We think that spam is a very serious issue. It's much more than a nuisance. Many of you are probably familiar with the kind of spam that lands in your inbox. What spam does is it actually undermines confidence in electronic commerce. On the really insidious side of spam, it's a m
March 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee I know this government has been looking at spam since as long ago I believe as three or four years, when the anti-spam task force worked on some pretty significant reports. As I say, I think there's some concern about Canada's becoming a haven for spam. We are behind, and our com
March 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee I don't have that information. I can certainly go back and provide it to the committee.
March 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee I can tell you that a target for spam and malware are the log-in details for someone's financial account.
March 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee Merci. Good morning, Chair, and members of the committee. Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. It's very nice to be here again and see some familiar faces. As you've just said, I am accompanied by Tom Pulcine, our director general, corporate services, as wel
March 18th, 2010Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee We do have jurisdiction. Whether we can enforce Canadian law at the end of the day is a different question. We haven't gone there because Facebook complied with our recommendations. This is a global problem that everybody is working with. So on your comment about working togethe
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham