Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are two components. One is a policy and management component. This would ensure that the purpose for which you're collecting the information, in this case biometrics, is limited and clearly stated. You must explain why you are collecting it and you must limit your use to th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It depends on the context. In general, verification is, in our view, more privacy-sensitive. You are only comparing against one and you're not having to create databases. But in some contexts, you do need to create large databases, for example, if you're trying to do duplicate de

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For temporary resident visa applicants, you can compare the person to whom you gave a visa with the person who has arrived. It's a one-to-one verification. We think it's a pretty good use of biometrics.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. So in conclusion--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In conclusion, we've been working with our partners in government departments, and stakeholders, and we look forward to continuing to work with them to build a safe and secure immigration system.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Great. Thanks again for inviting us. I want to talk about technology, so I've surrounded myself with some technology. I have some slides to illustrate some of the concepts as we go along. First, I want to make it clear that I love technology. I live it and work with it all the

Information & Ethics committee  You are, except that there were some slight issues that arose when they drove near the border.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. It's a very good question. We have not been asked to investigate that particular aspect of data collection, so we've not looked into it in detail. It was not part of this investigation, because we were looking specifically at the issue of capturing c

Information & Ethics committee  The Europeans have expressed concerns about the collection of the Wi-Fi access point information.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't remember off the top of my head. I think they're at a stage similar to ours of trying to make sense of it and trying to figure out what's appropriate.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. Yes, if a car was stationary, more data would have been collected. The software in the cars was set to change channels. There are about 11 Wi-Fi channels. It was changing channels five times a second, so it wasn't like it was getting a continuous stre

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll just expand on that a little bit. When we viewed the data, there was 18 gigabytes of it. That's about four DVDs' worth of data. That would have been intermixed with hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of gigabytes' worth of photographs collected at the same time. Google cars us

Information & Ethics committee  You should ask Google what their policy is or what their target is. Our experience is that it's happening within 24 hours.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. I'm hoping it's something you'll ask Google next week. We don't have any special knowledge of the kinds of things they're developing. We watch the trade press and attend the technical conferences. We know the kinds of things that they and other compa