Information & Ethics committee  The fact that we do not have laws adapted to the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution at the beginning of the 21st century creates in itself an environment that gives rise not only to potential risks, as I said, but to real harm for individuals. Would the Tim Horton

Information & Ethics committee  By March 2023, probably not. Is it a realistic target to say that 90% of Canadians should have confidence that their data is appropriately protected by companies and government? I think it is. How long that should take—

Information & Ethics committee  I think it's a function of a series of measures. It starts with a law that actually protects the privacy of citizens and consumers. It starts with that. As I say, it also requires that the regulator have appropriate resources, and I've said that I think we need to double our comp

Information & Ethics committee  In short, because individuals are not in a position to understand and know how their information is collected and used given today's technologies, there needs to be an independent third party like the OPC who can actually look under the hood, as we say, and do proactive audits to

Information & Ethics committee  What would be my recommendations for enhanced consent?

Information & Ethics committee  If we're talking about the private sector, I would refer you again to the two-page key recommendations, including primarily reintroducing in the law the requirement that consent requires the consumer to have knowledge and understanding of the purposes for which the information is

Information & Ethics committee  Remote work is effective. Very early, after the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, we moved to a teleworking arrangement, and the vast majority of our people work remotely and effectively. This coincided for us, though, with the sunsetting of a special budget that we had to tac

Information & Ethics committee  It is urgent, to say the least, and should have been done some time ago. I think the government knows there is a problem with trust in the digital economy. That is why Bill C‑11 was introduced at the time. We had certain concerns about the content of the bill. As to the private

Information & Ethics committee  The Tim Hortons application did indeed track their users' movements every few minutes of every day. I think that shows, among other things, that the current law—in part because it does not have penalties and in part because it does not define accountability as I've suggested—allo

Information & Ethics committee  Frankly, I have a lot of difficulty seeing how it could be legitimate and proportional for a company, other than a telephone service provider, to follow their customers every few minutes of every day.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm sorry. I did not catch the question.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I heard your preamble. I did not catch the question.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, sure. Transparency and openness are well-recognized privacy principles, and it would be an improvement for the law to include them, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  We're at the analysis and conceptual stage, obviously, and we're not hiring anyone because there's no legislation that has been adopted, but again, I thought it would be important not to be caught off guard and to think internally how we would we organize and what kinds of profes