Information & Ethics committee  If I understand you correctly, it's possible to impose data localization rules. Different governments have experimented in different ways with those kinds of requirements. That's not necessarily something I would recommend for Canada, but it is possible to control how informatio

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. Technological neutrality is an admirable goal to aim for. I think what the drafters of PIPEDA were originally aiming for was to try to keep it as neutral as possible, as far as I understand it. Whether they succeeded is different. I think there have been some fair points b

Information & Ethics committee  The right to be forgotten is not something I strongly oppose. I'm sort of undecided on that issue specifically. I see arguments either way as to whether some sort of right is potentially a good idea, because I do see a problem and I do see a change in the way information is recor

Information & Ethics committee  Thanks to the committee for your invitation to appear again. I'd like to start by offering my congratulations to the standing committee for their recommendations to reform the Privacy Act, which were published late last year and which I thought were excellent. It is, I believe,

Information & Ethics committee  Regarding whether to repeal it or to amend it?

Information & Ethics committee  We avoided taking a firm position on this for a reason, but generally speaking, I would probably be in favour of reforming it rather than revising it entirely. Now that we're having the debate, it might be useful to try to arrive at a proper solution so that this can hopefully be

Information & Ethics committee  I would echo what my colleague said regarding the need to look back in hindsight. A tragedy can give rise to particular kinds of legislation, which can be reactionary or can overstep or can fail to achieve a sober balance. We've seen that time and again. We saw that in the U.S.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, methods should certainly evolve, but I'm not sure that our values necessarily should. Obviously, nobody is suggesting that law enforcement agencies and security agencies should be existing in the 20th century. They should be using the Internet. They should be monitoring el

Information & Ethics committee  Just to clarify, that wasn't really an endorsement of the need to...of concerns with it—

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. Just to clarify, I was using that as an example of information that's fed into the government, because it had just been mentioned. In terms of balancing security, yes, absolutely, I think a core function of democratic systems is that they balance different interests agains

Information & Ethics committee  I'm still formulating it. Do you want to go first?

Information & Ethics committee  It's a bit of a challenge to define where the information should or shouldn't be, and who should or shouldn't be involved with sharing the information, particularly because, with the advance in big data, there is an enormous expansion in information that could potentially be rele

Information & Ethics committee  Just to clarify my position and my organization's position, we're not necessarily opposed to repealing the law itself. As I said, I'm not necessarily sure that the case has been made for the law's necessity, but I just generally find that it's better to come to these things with

Information & Ethics committee  I would generally support those kinds of provisions as well. I do think there needs to be accountability, and while we've seen certain provisions in there for good faith, those don't necessarily apply to this kind of a case, so I would concur with my colleagues.

Information & Ethics committee  Just to disagree with you slightly, I don't think the incoming administration's view is that torture should be used in a highly limited and specific way; in the statements I've heard, he seemed to be endorsing it extremely broadly. Certainly I agree with everything that my collea