Information & Ethics committee  It's an honour to be here. Thank you for having us.

Information & Ethics committee  The United States, Canada and other countries need to adopt some version of the GDPR, some adaptation of what has been put in that model. The California act moves the needle in the United States and there will be an aggressive race before the California act comes into play to pre

Information & Ethics committee  Privileges, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't mean to dodge the question, but I will answer it in a way that relates to what the information commissioner in the U.K. has ruled in relation to her investigation. Inferred data is considered personal data when it is attached to an identity. It's this idea of creating pre

Information & Ethics committee  I think that enforcing transparency in the system is a first important step, giving people this right of access that, when they exercise it, will lift the veil off the black box. I mean that beyond just getting your data, but also the confidence values of predictions—what Chris i

Information & Ethics committee  The incentives are quite different between a private entity that is trying to monetize data and a government entity that is trying to provide services that are not directly linked to the monetization. You pay your taxes, and you get services, as opposed to your data being used to

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it's weird in the United States. The Internal Revenue Service knows all of our transactions and could do our taxes for us; they're just not allowed to. I think there are interesting ways this does play out, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  The right of access definitely needs specific exemptions on the government side, but I would also bring up another necessary exemption, which is to protect journalism and journalists. I think there is GDPR to an extent, but the idea is that journalists need to protect sources, an

Information & Ethics committee  I can relate that to my home state of New York. A major telecom cable provider, as a condition of a merger, was supposed to provide broadband services to rural areas in the state of New York, but failed to do so. The state threatened to kick this provider out of the state if they

Information & Ethics committee  We have no confirmation yet that the data has been deleted. The information—

Information & Ethics committee  Correct. I can say that just last week at the Sundance Film Festival, a documentary on Netflix premiered. I think some members of this committee are in the film, because the DCMS committee is featured prominently. A former employee featured in the film shows evidence that Facebo

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I have seen concerns dealing with the insolvency proceedings. Mr. Vickery has also shown me forensic evidence that adds to your concerns.

Information & Ethics committee  I think the metaphor Mr. Kint was using for how the online world needs to reflect the expectations and practices of the offline world is really important. We use the metaphor of privacy in the home as an interesting way of thinking about digital privacy. When you invite someone i

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. I think the lesson I learned from pursuing my Cambridge Analytica data was the fundamental necessity of the right of access. The right of access needs to be applied horizontally across the entire civil society, in both the marketplace and the government. As to this idea t

Information & Ethics committee  I had an opportunity to engage with the industry and the marketplace in many ways prior to GDPR. For example, in 2015, when Apple enabled ad blocking in iOS, that created a considerable discussion in the publishing industry around the effects of this, so I engaged with industry a