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Information & Ethics committee Just as a clarification, the report on Facebook was as a result of a complaint, so it was a full-scale investigation. We also issued recently a comparative analysis of the six most popular sites with Canadians, and the report compares the privacy and security settings of those si
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee I feel we've been able to accomplish it through our existing law, which is flexible and neutral.
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee You're absolutely right. She would have a different view on the Privacy Act. All of my comments were tied to PIPEDA.
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee We've had fewer than a dozen inquiries.
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee We have had the one complaint I referred to, earlier this spring, which was resolved. It was a complaint about an individual who felt his image had been captured.
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee I went through that. But since the launch of Facebook, we've had inquiries about how to get—
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee I'm sorry; Google Street View. Since Google Street View went live on October 7, we've had calls from individuals who've asked how to get their image off Street View.
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee We have sent them to the company, and none of them has come back to us as a full-scale complaint.
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee That's correct.
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee I don't really want to speculate. Nobody has complained to date. Canadians obviously enjoy the service. But I expect we will receive a complaint. I think there's a lot of dialogue out there, and we could receive a complaint from an advocacy group. There are people who are conce
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee I don't.
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee I think there are nine Canadian cities, and I think 14 countries.
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee It is since October 7.
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee No, I think they could do a better job in the blurring technology. We were told by Google that their blurring technology was 98% effective; that was before the images went live. But we've seen for ourselves that there are many instances in which individual faces are not blurred.
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham
Information & Ethics committee I am satisfied with the one-year timeframe. I think it's a reasonable retention period.
October 22nd, 2009Committee meeting
Elizabeth Denham