Information & Ethics committee  I would agree with that. I think there is enormous potential for creativity, for dynamism, for reaching learners with different styles and different abilities, and for bringing information and resources to the classrooms. There is tremendous potential there. What I see, and thi

Information & Ethics committee  To go back to a point that was made earlier, the notion of transparency is an incredibly important one, because people aren't necessarily aware that the piece of data that they give consent to in one context—or that they've given a certain consent to but may not have realized the

Information & Ethics committee  Along with the George Orwell novel, you also hear the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report mentioned. In that movie, you see commercials changing according to the person watching. Yes, I think we are watched by companies more and more. But you also have to realize that the informatio

Information & Ethics committee  There currently is a complaints mechanism under PIPEDA, but there is also the possibility that the commissioner can conduct audits of the information practices of companies, and she has done so on a number of occasions. There are a number of different powers you can give to a com

Information & Ethics committee  I am not sure that I understand the question. Are you talking about security?

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly there is a lot of concern about personal information being lost from companies of this kind and the repercussions that has on us, whether in terms of identity theft or of criminal activity on the Internet. Legislation dealing with the protection of personal information

Information & Ethics committee  Maybe Val could start.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it is a very challenging environment. One of the things I talked about—and I think Professor Geist mentioned this as well—is that the problems are now so multi-dimensional and complex that it may be the case that they simply can't be slotted into one particular box of data p

Information & Ethics committee  I agree with both sets of comments. The point to underline is that it's no longer just a transaction-based environment where we exchange personal information for a particular transaction. Many of us go online in the morning and stay online all day. We carry around smart phones; m

Information & Ethics committee  With respect to the two aspects, monetary penalities and data security breach notification, the concern with putting some boundaries on the obligation to report security breaches is that they're, unfortunately, so common and of so many different varieties that, if there were an a

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much for inviting me to speak to you today. I will make my remarks in English, but I will be happy to answer questions in either English or French. I'd like to begin by saying that I think it is very important that more attention be given to data protection and p