Information & Ethics committee  The circumstances under which information is exchanged without knowledge or consent are highly prescribed in PIPEDA. The banks take that obligation very seriously. To your direct question, if they meet the requirements of the act, then they would share the information amongst ea

Information & Ethics committee  As reflected in my colleague's remarks at the outset, we do agree that PIPEDA has served Canadian society very well up until now. Its broad-based principles are fairly technology-neutral. But as new products and new services are developed, it could benefit from some tweaks, in pa

Information & Ethics committee  Our view would be that the definition of fraud as used there is limiting, in that we are dealing with crimes. In that circumstance, it's to prevent, suppress, and detect fraud, so our interpretation is that it's fraud as defined in the Criminal Code of Canada, which is why we are