Information & Ethics committee  As was mentioned earlier, online privacy issues are really nested in broader concerns about marketing, citizenship, human rights, social interaction, democracy, democratic dialogue, and those types of things. If you go back to the history of data protection, it was always assumed

Information & Ethics committee  Sure.

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. When you use this data, you're collecting all this personal information. You're tracking population trends. Then you divide everybody up into categories, and then you treat them differently because they belong to a category. Earlier a concern was raised that this type of te

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Thanks. Actually, I did some research that was funded by the Privacy Commissioner's office. The idea was to take kids to the privacy policies on a number of sites they frequented to see if they could understand them. My research assistant is a 24-year-old. She's a university

Information & Ethics committee  Definitely. It's available online.

Information & Ethics committee  Okay, I'm almost done. I urge the committee to look also at the uses of aggregate data, because that's how those profiles that Professor Scassa was talking about run. Personal information isn't the only privacy problem that we face online. Third, I would suggest that section 3

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much. I'm the principal investigator of MediaSmart's Young Canadians in a Wired World research project. We've been collecting data about young people's experiences of online privacy for the past 12 years, which coincidentally means that we've been collecting data