Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Public Interest Advocacy Centre, or PIAC, is a national, non-profit organization and registered charity that provides legal and research services on behalf of consumer interests, and in particular, vulnerable consumer interests, concerning the provision

Information & Ethics committee  I am not sure if anything has been commercialized, but certainly you could build an algorithm like that. I think there would be no trouble doing that.

Information & Ethics committee  You might want to consider what they're doing with the anti-spam legislation, which is giving a private right of action, with a set amount per violation up to $200. It's the same sort of thing. That enables class actions, because it's hard to show harm. There are a number of clas

Information & Ethics committee  That's a quote from him. I'd be happy to provide the Wall Street Journal article to the clerk.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Sure.

Information & Ethics committee  I guess we'll go from our left to our right. There are some private trustmark systems. Some have come up and gone down over the years. I know there is AdChoices, an American example, which is also followed by the Association of Canadian Advertisers. I believe Alysia mentioned Ann

Information & Ethics committee  Overall, we think that if there is a trustmark system, it would be good to have. Let's call it a blessing by the Privacy Commissioner, who has looked at this voluntary one and believes it's a good approach that would be helpful because it would increase consumer trust.

Information & Ethics committee  Correct.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, absolutely. If there were a requirement to either produce a retention policy or to erase information, and a company refused after that time to make the policy or to erase the information, then we're looking at.... If people are concerned about jumping straight to large fines

Information & Ethics committee  Our experience with data retention and the right to erasure largely arose as a result of our complaint against a children's website and the company's absolute refusal to remove personal information. We did get contacted by former members of that social network, once we brought th

Information & Ethics committee  I think you could include that. I imagine the Privacy Commissioner might give you an interesting point of view on this, perhaps on Thursday. It may involve a lot of auditing and checking up on the matter, but to at least have this would give some certainty. It's rather like say

Information & Ethics committee  I would just add that, in a lot of the discussion around the right to be forgotten, which we've termed “the right of erasure”, I think there's a lot of scope for consumers to have information removed from marketing databases in the future. The right that the Europeans are focusin

Information & Ethics committee  I believe our proposal doesn't try to pick out which sites. It's based more on an adjustment to consent. In the United States, as you know, there's a requirement not to take the information of children under the age of 13. That should be standard here in Canada. It's not in the a

Information & Ethics committee  Right now, at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, we are exploring ways to fix that problem. As I said in my opening remarks, we considered the possibility of having standard parameters to make sure that, as soon as people visit a site, be it a social media or other site, the s