Industry committee  I'm advising them to be extremely transparent and to be clear and to have proper consent in place. We still have a problem at the end of the day that people click and don't read. That's a reality. How is this going to address the problem? I don't know. I don't know, and I'm just

Industry committee  For the sharing?

Industry committee  I advise private sector businesses, so I'm going to be answering these calls: “Can I share or can I not share?” I'm going to have to guide them on whether they have reasonable grounds, or if it makes sense, or if it's in compliance with the amended law. I'm going to have to see

Industry committee  Specific? No.

Industry committee  I'm concerned about fishing expeditions and about sharing to investigate in case. I guess that would be my concern as a consumer.

Industry committee  Yes, but I would have to take my pen and draft something. I can't answer—

Industry committee  I didn't prepare it. Okay.

Industry committee  You said the word “parents”, so that's interesting.

Industry committee  PIPEDA currently requires that consent be reasonably understandable by the individual. For me there's a clear understanding in the industry what that means. Current practices have evolved over the last 10 years. I'm concerned that we're reopening a door or trying to address a pro

Industry committee  There's already a problem, and I don't see how the proposed amendment will address that. Tomorrow, if this becomes law, I'm going to have clients saying the consent they had before is no longer valid; perhaps we need to reopen the door. How can I be sure the consent of the indi

Industry committee  I'm thinking that we need to think very closely about the threshold at which this type of information could be exchanged to make sure that we avoid fishing expeditions. I would propose making sure that there is some type of transparency so that people are aware that these exchang

Industry committee  I would need to think about that a bit more, whether it be at the time of or after the fact, depending on the case. The idea is being transparent.

Industry committee  Definitely; in Spencer, the court said that individuals have an expectation of privacy in their online activities, and therefore, before you come knocking at the door of an ISP to get the identity behind an IP address, you need to have a warrant in hand. Now with the sharing wit

Industry committee  I would also support the bill going ahead.

Industry committee  Maybe; I guess it depends which groups and what kind of threshold we're talking about. One thing is for sure; the concern that I've had with this bill and that we're trying to address with the sharing of information without consent is that this privacy law should not be used to