Industry committee  I am.

Industry committee  I am not entirely certain whether or not we proceeded in PIPA. That was a little before my time with the organization. But if I may, I would love to mention, on the note that you just asked Ms. Vonn, that some have suggested that the approach in Alberta and B.C. has been totally

Industry committee  Yes, the amendment we'd like to see is the complete removal of non-notified voluntary disclosures. We think that voluntary disclosures, as Ms. Vonn has stated, put your telecom provider specifically in our interests in the position of being a gatekeeper and deciding what informat

Industry committee  I won't speak to what the mechanism could look like as I'm not an expert in that area. I definitely support the idea of a system to inform these people of what has gone on. If it doesn't put an investigation at risk—and this is obviously contained in the bill—we definitely believ

Industry committee  Absolutely. As I noted in my presentation, metadata can reveal extremely personal information about people that also will echo Ms. Vonn's points that these people often don't know is actually being revealed. That can include, as I said, the histories of websites they visit, so it

Industry committee  Absolutely, yes, and definitely in more sensitive cases than that—

Industry committee  Yes, in more sensitive cases than perhaps buying a car is the opportunity for people who are seeking medical advice or people who are potentially seeking out sources on political information. These are things that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy to and don't imagi

Industry committee  One of the things that we've noted is that in 2012 there was a study that said that a lot of this consent is being signed in disclosure agreements and terms of service agreements. There was actually a study in 2012 that stated it would take 72 work days for an individual to read

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon, my name is Meghan Sali. I'm here today on behalf of OpenMedia, a non-profit organization working to safeguard the digital rights of Canadians. I'll structure my remarks today by focusing primarily on a critical issue within Bill S-4, whic