Information & Ethics committee  It's happening both ways. Political data is making its way into commercial ventures and marketing, and the consumer behaviour data gathered by Toys“R”Us or whoever is making its way into political campaigning purposes. I don't believe there's much of a problem with going door to

Information & Ethics committee  No, this is something entirely separate, as far as I am currently aware. Part of the work I do tries to highlight the prevalence of this type of data breach. It happens a lot more often than people realize. It is something I come across all the time. It is very hard to surprise

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Every breach I come across—then see that it is secured after I've come across it and then eventually talk about it in public reports—is completely open to anyone and everyone with an Internet connection. There's no username, password, or other protection involved. To get a

Information & Ethics committee  I can't speak specifically to the numbers and calculations, but I believe that is in the same vein as what I'm talking about, that, yes, it takes something with teeth attached to it to really get executives' attention. GDPR has gotten a lot of executives' attention.

Information & Ethics committee  I have both a positive answer to that and a negative answer to that. I'll start with the negative. There is no way to guarantee that any bit of data, any string of characters you submit or that are identified with you, will not be propagated down the line to another company. Dat

Information & Ethics committee  I believe the incentives to spread around data by people who are profiting from it are great. Giving in a little bit is not only a slippery slope; it is a foregone conclusion that it will happen to a wide degree, and it's just a matter of time before political parties and commerc

Information & Ethics committee  The possibility is there. I want to emphasize that I have no current reason to believe that any money laundering has occurred, but I think it is worth looking into.

Information & Ethics committee  Which one? We've put out four now.

Information & Ethics committee  That's the most recent one regarding Canadian politics and such. That report confirmed the names that are present. It doesn't necessarily mean that because a candidate's name appears in a project that AggregateIQ was working on.... It doesn't mean that candidate was necessarily d

Information & Ethics committee  What I can say on this is that there were not invoices, receipts, or things of that nature included in the GitLab repository that I downloaded. Exact smoking-gun receipts and pieces of paper saying “we paid this much to this person”—that's not present. However, I can clarify my c

Information & Ethics committee  I have been asked that, and my answer would be, yes, I would. However, I need to explain that in my work, I draw a line of classification between a malicious breach and a non-malicious breach. I would classify this as not necessarily a malicious breach, but it was a violation of

Information & Ethics committee  Well, one example that is very appropriate, because it illustrates both the original discovery and the whole nature of this relationship, is an employee named Ali Yassine. I usually try not to name people, but I feel that it's important for you to know this for the purposes of lo

Information & Ethics committee  It's highly likely that this has occurred. I have the tools. I don't have the ingredients that those tools mixed with, because that would have involved taking the additional step of going into databases and such. From what I see, there's no reason to have these tools in this way,

Information & Ethics committee  The most personal information specific to the voter data breaches or just generally?

Information & Ethics committee  The most detailed message you have sent to a loved one through any chat app could very easily be logged, archived, tied to your name.