Information & Ethics committee  I will continue on with the trends. The collection of biometrics at the border is something which the Privacy Commissioner has expressed a great deal of concern about. It depends a bit on what you mean by a biometric. That's a word that's not used consistently, but it speaks to

Information & Ethics committee  It is a deep concern, as companies such as Facebook and Google are increasingly using facial recognition. The ability to identify somebody more precisely from simply taking a picture of them is something that should be of concern to all of us. It would encourage greater stalking,

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for your question. The project has centred at Queen's University and we're looking at various trends in surveillance that have occurred over the last 10 or 15 years or so. There are several things that we would point to. First, there is the fact that surveillance has

Information & Ethics committee  There's the lack of transparency. There's the use of tracking devices on websites, spyware that links personal characteristics and personal browsing behaviours to other features. Our privacy protection rules are based on a notion of transparency, consent, and notification when in

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, of course. Political parties use social networking. Political parties use social media. Political parties use social media in order to communicate with potential voters, donors, etc., but through that communication they are able to capture vast amounts of information about

Information & Ethics committee  This is a question to be asking, yes. One of the things that is currently occurring in the U.S. election cycle is the integration of different forms of data from different sources. The availability of personal data in the U.S. is far more extensive than it is here. The integrati

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much. I trust you can hear me okay.

Information & Ethics committee  I thank you for the opportunity to appear before your committee and to speak about this important issue. I am a professor of political science at the University of Victoria and have been studying privacy protection issues for nearly 30 years in Canada and internationally. I've w