Status of Women committee  What we found is that the architecture of the site privileges visuality or visualness, which emphasizes the pressure on girls to look a particular way. So like I said, when we originally started this project we assumed that online spaces would be a place where it would be easier

Status of Women committee  I issue caution. Again, it's an age question. I do a lot of research on kids between grades 4 and 11 and we're finding that a large proportion of grade 4 kids have cellphones, for example, and text. A lot of kids have Facebook accounts, even though technically they're not allowe

Status of Women committee  We're talking about a continuum of behaviour and a continuum of environmental factors. I go back to the testimony you've heard about the voice in my head—

Status of Women committee  The Competition Bureau is beginning a preliminary examination of behavioural targeting and of the marketing model that drives a lot of this kind of advertising. They've been looking at children's privacy and the impact on children. As an unfair trade practice, there is space ther

Status of Women committee  The literature that I'm familiar with is more within the communications and sociological disciplines, and it focuses more on body image. But there is quite a bit of work that's been done on body image, both within the community as a whole and in online media and other forms of me

Status of Women committee  Yes. There are best practices. Dove actually has taken the lead as a corporate player and has come up with some really interesting advertising. A magazine in Australia tried to implement that with regular-sized bodies, and their advertisers all pulled and they had to pull the ma

Status of Women committee  I have two recommendations or there are two areas that might be interesting to examine. The first one is in regard to privacy legislation. The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, our private sector privacy legislation, has a reasonable purposes section t

Status of Women committee  That's a really good question, actually. Mrs. Stevenson mentioned the diet industry, and it is a multi-billion dollar industry, and I completely concur that's part of the puzzle. This is wrapped up, I'd say, in a particular consumer understanding of youth and adolescence, so I

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. First I'd like to start by commending the committee for undertaking this study, I think it's incredibly important. I'd also like to commend Ms. Lemoine for her really important testimony before this committee and I really appreciate that you came and shared

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  The study was conducted with children between the ages of 11 and 17, and parents with kids of those ages. It's available online, and I'd be happy to make it available to the committee. We also collected a lot of data about cyber-bullying, which is what you're alluding to, the pro

Information & Ethics committee  Perhaps I can make just one quick comment. If you look at identity theft, typically the solution is always “Give me more of your information so I can make sure it's you”, which just creates more leaks, which just increases the risk that the information will flow and be used agai

Information & Ethics committee  As part of the young Canadians project, we talked to 10 key informant teachers across the country, so I actually have good data on this. They perceive it as a privacy issue, because when the walls of the classroom become transparent, you lose the ability to create a safe space wh

Information & Ethics committee  One of the problems with answering that question is the lack of transparency. I would like a lot more information about the business plan behind these sites—and certainly describing how the back engine works—and then I would feel more comfortable in responding. What I can tell

Information & Ethics committee  Sure, I'll take that one. There were recommendations with the first PIPEDA review to have a tiered consent mechanism that recognized differences in ages. The suggestion was that under a certain age, companies shouldn't be able to collect any information at all. Then as kids beco