Information & Ethics committee  Let's take the example of data breaches. Now there's something that has shown that, although we have a good act, something can come along such as hacking or data-handling practices that can become a chronic problem. It's worth tuning up the act for that. Otherwise, the act itself

Information & Ethics committee  They were asked to change their privacy policy and some other information on June 30, and they missed that deadline. They were asked to change their default settings by September 30 so that when you become a new member you are defaulted into “friends only”, and that this not be s

Information & Ethics committee  No, I'm saying that when the Privacy Commissioner asked Nexopia to have a data retention policy and to provide users with a real delete key, if you will, they said no. And then the Privacy Commissioner thought it was important enough to go to Federal Court on her own to try to en

Information & Ethics committee  We think that users and people.... It's almost a human right. You should have a chance to ask a company to remove the information. It's clear in the act that you are supposed to delete it if it's no longer used, so we don't see why you shouldn't have the right to remove it. In E

Information & Ethics committee  The Privacy Commissioner did a pretty good job of saying that even with the present act, these are the rules. The trouble comes when the company says, “That's nice. Thank you for your finding. We'll continue to do business as we wish.” The problem is in the enforcement. The act

Information & Ethics committee  We do, and the Nexopia complaint is a good illustration. But we could have chosen other social networking websites as well. The point is that we've gone through the process of identifying a site that seemed to not have made it clear to users what information would be used. The Pr

Information & Ethics committee  That's the core of our complaint. It was triggered by the fact that you can go on to Nexopia, and they even provide a handy-dandy database searching tool for outside users—or anyone—to search from the front page for age, gender, and the city where you live. And if you do that, yo

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am here alone. Janet Lo, my co-counsel, sends her regrets. She's in a lock-up for CRTC on Bell-Astral. The Public Interest Advocacy Centre is a non-profit organization that provides legal and research services on behalf of consumer interests, and in part