Information & Ethics committee  The issue is complex. Perhaps Ms. Kosseim can provide more detail.

Information & Ethics committee  At this point, as I have said, we have increased our productivity with respect to complaints in relation to PIPEDA. Our productivity is up and the response time is down and the backlog has been reduced. I think we're going in the right direction. We have some challenges with resp

Information & Ethics committee  We asked to appear, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Ultimately my concern with respect to Bill C-13 is that although the Supreme Court decision in Spencer clarified many things, it could not and did not clarify every issue raised by this bill. My concern is that the Canadian population will be in the dark as to the level of protec

Information & Ethics committee  My statutory duties in this regard would be in part on the question of sharing by organization subject to PIPEDA and whether their sharing conforms to the Spencer decision. There could be complaints along those lines. It would be premature to prejudge whether we'll be able to as

Information & Ethics committee  Breaches can occur with paper records or digital records. They're perhaps more likely to occur with digital records. It would be a consideration.

Information & Ethics committee  First on the question of security and privacy, I'll just say that ultimately I think it's possible to have both, and that position informs quite a few comments that I have made, whether it's about Bill C-13 or Bill C-44. I think security is obviously very important, and legislato

Information & Ethics committee  I have not.

Information & Ethics committee  I think it should be independent oversight, i.e., oversight by a body that is not part of the executive and is independent from the executive. Then you get into questions of mechanics, which I don't have a definitive view on. There are currently three oversight bodies: one for th

Information & Ethics committee  It is an issue that would be a factor in coming up with a position on whether that ultimately is reasonable or not. I would certainly bear that factor in mind in assessing the situation.

Information & Ethics committee  What I would say is that there may be advantages and disadvantages to receiving information in paper form. One advantage might be to ensure the security of the information in question, which certainly is possible to manage if it is received in paper form. That's the point that co

Information & Ethics committee  We made a number of recommendations—

Information & Ethics committee  We have recommended essentially four types of amendments to Bill C-13. One issue is related to the question of thresholds that I mentioned earlier. The bill currently proposes that access to information under production orders would be on the basis of reasonable suspicion. We r

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I was at an international conference of privacy and data protection commissioners, in October actually, on current issues or upcoming issues with respect to privacy. The issue of big data was among those discussed, and also the privacy implications of the Internet, which als