Information & Ethics committee  It's a combination of things. It's what information is being collected and what it's for. This is one of the problems with data mining. It's one thing to mine data, but in some cases what you end up with is data strip mining and all kinds of information being put into the hopper.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, for two reasons. One is the privacy of personal information. I gave you this information for this purpose, and now you're using it for that purpose, and I don't really see how it's connected. The algorithms are amazing. It's amazing what they come up with. Mr. Kelly is proba

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. What buttons are on the blender: frappé, purée, goo-ify, whatever? You might not have to know exactly where all the wires are connected in a blender, but you need to know that, yes, this was run through a blender, here are the buttons, and here's what went into the blender.

Information & Ethics committee  We just raised this as something that is not in the federal act, and we offer the example of B.C. for your consideration.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. We're in favour of this change for reasons of judicial economy and to avoid wasting public resources. We note that the Privacy Commissioner is saying that it should be held in his hands. You may remember that when we appeared on the Access to Information Act, our view was

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. We have our section 30.1. A great deal of discussion that went on is available online from the commissioner's website. The former commissioner did a very extensive report. We did a report. There's been discussion of it during the two legislative reviews that have taken place

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, Sean Bruyea.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, he brought an action for damages under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms because of a violation of his charter rights. This was as a result of the repeated accessing and use of his very sensitive personal information. When you get our written submission, there's a link to

Information & Ethics committee  We did a submission to the Provincial Court of British Columbia on the availability online of non-conviction information, which is not exactly the question you're asking, and I would refer you to that to a certain extent. There's also something called “practical obscurity”, wher

Information & Ethics committee  It's something that has been in effect since the early 2000s. It was brought in, and there was very extensive debate. The Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia at the time, David Loukidelis, did a very extensive report. We did submissions, and a number of other people were inv

Information & Ethics committee  I will answer first, and then, I will leave some time for Mr. Karanicolas to answer. It's a bit complicated. It is clear that Canadian laws apply in Canada and, in some cases, elsewhere. One of the problems, however, is that the origins of these agencies, the Five Eyes alliance,

Information & Ethics committee  Employment training is one of these jurisdictional areas where there are federal and provincial programs. Obviously, government wants these programs to work well. They want the public funds that are allocated to them to be used efficiently and to get the right people the right tr

Information & Ethics committee  The privacy aspect relates to the collection of personal information, the data mining, whereby information is taken from various sources, some of which may be publicly available and some of which individuals or perhaps all Canadians are required to provide to government. Generall

Information & Ethics committee  That's precisely it. It's a bit of a long story, but we had an extensive debate on the subject in British Columbia around the turn of the century. The provincial government contracted private organizations to provide certain government services, including the medical services pla

Information & Ethics committee  As for where this would come in, a primary example would be—this is perhaps more provincial than federal—in terms of various types of social benefits or things like training programs.