Status of Women committee  I would agree. I think the corporations we deal with are doing their best to be good corporate citizens, and they work hard to meet the government whenever they can on issues of importance. I think that perhaps this is something that we need to leverage more and put an emphasis o

Status of Women committee  In the EU, certainly, the regulation on the right to privacy is very, very strong. For instance, in the EU they have the right to be forgotten, or they're proposing the right to be forgotten. In Canada, our privacy legislation is strong, certainly, but it does not go to that exte

Status of Women committee  Funding is always a big issue: who should be the funder? Certainly, education is a provincial jurisdiction, but the federal government can be a champion in helping to establish the interest level in this kind of debate and in establishing the need to raise digital literacy. Publi

Status of Women committee  Hackers have a variety of tools. The most basic one used is the concept of phishing. Everybody here probably routinely gets a number of phishing emails. Now they're starting to do text-message phishing that says “click on this link”, and as soon as you click, that's it: your devi

Status of Women committee  I think that in any dialogue it's important to cover all sides of the story, so we wouldn't want to fall into strictly negative dialogue on big data, big data analytics, and the negative potential. I think we need to keep stressing all the good things about big data, including pr

Status of Women committee  I would certainly agree with Sandra. I think whatever the federal government can do to sponsor, champion, and encourage education with young girls and young boys, starting in grade school, in methods, a vocabulary and a vernacular that they can relate to, is so important, includi

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  I know that there are algorithms online that present a lot of good, but not necessarily in combatting cybercrime. For instance, in the field of medical technology, they are doing a lot of big data work and even finding specific individualized potential cures and so on. There are

Status of Women committee  The other thing I would add to that is the notion of a free and open Internet. As for the notion of censoring, it's very difficult in terms of what can be done when you don't know who the user is. I'm not sure that's the best route to the end goal.

Status of Women committee  I think we do that by explaining what happens online to everyday and all Canadians, who are not necessarily all in the technology sector and therefore are less aware of what a search is really doing and of the ins and outs of different algorithms or capabilities. I think we need

Status of Women committee  I would say that it's the amount of information freely available on the Internet that can be so easily aggregated by using the most basic of tools, such as search engines of any kind, that makes it easy for malicious actors to aggregate information on individuals or groups of ind

Status of Women committee  The problem with that is that the Internet doesn't distinguish the age of the user online unless you have some form of search engine that requires your age to be disclosed. You might have parental filters on your home Internet connection that would prevent your youngster from get

Status of Women committee  There's no doubt that malicious actors find ways to infiltrate networks, home networks, and home computers and are going to find children, as well as adults, using those computers. Today, most households have more than one Internet-enabled device. They have at least one cellphone

Status of Women committee  I'll let Sandra do that one.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you for inviting Innovation, Science and Economic Development to address the issue of big data analytics and its applications to algorithm-based content creation, to the detriment, in some cases, of young girls and women. This is an important is