Information & Ethics committee  Consent is what the individual gives, so you give consent for them to use, and it's like, look at the front office, that's where the forms, etc. go. What happens in the back office is you need sufficient granularity so if you chose A, B, and D, but not C or E, then those three wo

Information & Ethics committee  I think if you look at the choice model, yes, you can choose certain things, and that should allow you to “opt out” of having information processed in a certain way or kept on your behalf. I think that's a relatively good model, but it doesn't work in all cases. Another example,

Information & Ethics committee  I think the consent model would be difficult to do. Just making it longer, with more and more consent—

Information & Ethics committee  I believe in withdrawing consent and I believe in the right to be forgotten. With respect to children, I haven't gone into the details, but in the United States, COPPA, the child online protection act, does provide some protection, for children 13 and under, from the information

Information & Ethics committee  With regard to intent versus event, we can look at some of the FTC rulings, particularly on CVS Pharmacy. One store didn't train their employees properly, didn't give patients access to their own medical information in that drugstore, and there was a $4.5-million fine for 53 even

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Digital exhaust is what's left over. You executed the transaction and bought the goods, but you left a time-stamp on there as to when you did it. You left your credit card information on there or on PayPal or however you paid for it. You have all of these other pieces of informat

Information & Ethics committee  I perhaps differ from some other people, but I think the right to be forgotten would be useful. I think people would like the opportunity to extract their information. I don't know how technologically possible that is. If I can use an example, if people are backing up on DVDs—n

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. My name is Robert Parker. I'm a retired partner with Deloitte & Touche. I first got involved in privacy in 1995 on an ISO privacy task force. Subsequent to that, in 2000, I joined the initiation of the Canada-U.S. privacy task force that developed generally accept