Information & Ethics committee  I agree with that. Transparency at that level is going to be an enormous issue. I do think that data protection is becoming interdisciplinary as well. Just to use the example of the data portability right, which is something in the new European directive, we were discussing this

Information & Ethics committee  Michael, do you want to start?

Information & Ethics committee  As a parent of teenagers, I'm all in favour of the higher level of 16, simply because I think there's an educational function to be played there as well. It's not simply a question of strictly consent. It's a question of ensuring that kids under that age are given more opportunit

Information & Ethics committee  As a parent of teenagers, I'd kind of go with 25—

Information & Ethics committee  —but 16 I could live with, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  The overly cumbersome part is the tricky thing. One of the challenges, of course, is that there are a lot of so-called free apps and free social media platforms and free services that are not free. The currency that you pay is your personal information. In that context, it does m

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, well, I don't know, but I certainly know there's a huge volume of personal information about me that is out there now and is being collected and transmitted probably right now by my phone, information that I don't want to share. I don't even know what it is or how it got the

Information & Ethics committee  The American approach has been to have legislation specifically addressing children's privacy. The Canadian approach has been to deal with it under PIPEDA and to recognize that children may be a special case, so as a matter of interpretation, we take into account the fact that a

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I would hesitate to say that it really creates a Canadian right to be forgotten. The very particular context of the case is that it was dealing with court decisions that had been made publicly available by the courts under specific restrictions that weren't being respected,

Information & Ethics committee  That's right. They were accessible but not indexed, and the courts made them available on the basis that they would not be indexed.

Information & Ethics committee  They were scraped and then indexed by this other site. I would hesitate to say that it's really a right-to-be-forgotten case.

Information & Ethics committee  I could jump in on that. I think there would be dangers in splitting it up. Increasingly over time the commissioner's approach has been to try to create guidance that is specific to particular sectors or particular contexts so that you have one law that applies to all, but how

Information & Ethics committee  I know that in the very early days of PIPEDA there was a lot of talk about trust marks and trust seals and so on. People tried them. They haven't really gone very far. I think there have been concerns about the counterfeiting or faking of trust seals and trust marks as well. I'm

Information & Ethics committee  That's a very good question. It's challenging. I think there are small fixes in terms of tools, direction, and guidance in drafting better privacy policies and more condensed or short-form privacy policy templates, as you suggest. In terms of ubiquitous and continuous collect

Information & Ethics committee  Maybe I'll pass the floor to our resident European.