Information & Ethics committee  I have not seen any data to indicate that at this stage.

Information & Ethics committee  There is a line to be drawn as to what personal information should not be compromised. The privacy framework we currently have has the principle that certain data should be deleted if it is no longer needed or intended to be used. That was passed by the Privacy Commissioner and m

Information & Ethics committee  On this specific topic, I believe, from a regulatory point of view, what we have is probably sufficient. The tools are needed for the Privacy Commissioner at this point to go out and establish the framework with the industry, the academics, and the community at large, as to how i

Information & Ethics committee  There was a tradition, probably about three years ago, when a lot of the software development work went to India, Malaysia, and Indonesia, for labour reasons and other reasons. Nowadays, as the investors start looking at solving some of the problems, they often use what is known

Information & Ethics committee  I think the tools that are there are pretty reasonable. If I was a credible business and the Privacy Commissioner went out to the market and said that I did not comply—and I think we as an association were on paper committing during a peer period discussion that we wanted disclos

Information & Ethics committee  No, not today. The way we see it, it is a big part of the broader ecosystem. We believe that the message and the education needs to be pretty deep in all parts of the country and in every sector. We're going to be talking to the Privacy Commissioner's office. We are proposing a v

Information & Ethics committee  I think the point is valid. This needs to be written up in plain English rather than in legalese. In addition, it needs to be distributed as almost a code of business for businesses that are part of the ICT community. That information could be disseminated through ITAC and othe

Information & Ethics committee  When you ask for more power, we need to understand what that is.

Information & Ethics committee  At this stage, most of our membership's comments about dealing with the Privacy Commissioner have been that they feel it is actually working well, because they are engaged. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner is quite engaged with the industry in regular conversation and dialo

Information & Ethics committee  It is possible. My suggestion and my response would be that it would probably be useful to have that dialogue with the actors around the table. Most of the credible organizations that are our members would be happy to sit down with the Privacy Commissioner to have the conversatio

Information & Ethics committee  No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that, first of all, this is an industry at a very early, nascent stage, and things that are unfolding and innovations that are taking place are happening very rapidly. Often we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow or in two

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for your question. I think a comprehensive digital society is probably at the very core of a lot of these issues. It's not only the social media; you're talking about e-commerce and you're talking about mobile technology. By and large, we are dealing in a global arena

Information & Ethics committee  I think when the original PIPEDA was passed by the legislature, we did go on record as part of the industry sector that agreed with the overall position of full disclosure on any of the major issues or breaches that came up. Now, in Bill C-12 they are looking at an amendment. W

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Do you want me to give a closing comment or answer the question?

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. I think the points are very valid. The issues are very serious in the arena of what is going on with young people and how vulnerable they are. Most of the industries take this very seriously. Several innovative technologies are being talked about within the industry, regar