Information & Ethics committee  One aspect of the Estonian model that is important and valuable is the principle of collecting once. Not requiring citizens to keep inputting their data is the key idea of this unified national identity, and it prevents this problem that citizens in most countries face of constan

Information & Ethics committee  The GDPR in the EU and, to a degree, the new California Consumer Privacy Act, which will come into effect in 2020, offer us models for setting limits. One limit that you proposed is a limit on data retention. One interesting part about GDPR is the requirement to disclose the data

Information & Ethics committee  It would be really interesting to create incentives for the industry to realign itself towards non-personal data and away from personal data.

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly. The question is how the government can push the industry away from personal data towards a way to monetize non-personal data. There are ways to achieve similar results without using personal data. In regard to the copyright question, there hasn't been a lot of talk o

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. How could a political party even justify hiring a foreign company to work on their campaign? How is that even acceptable?

Information & Ethics committee  Within the given infrastructure that's here, how can campaigns and vendors be scrutinized by citizens, civil society, academia and the government itself? If the business of this political engine feels as if it is being scrutinized, that's the best we can hope for in terms of thei

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I think that's a bold but necessary step. I commented on that earlier, that I admire the audacity of taking that position. One thing that got lost in the story is that it was illegal to create political profiles of Americans, according to U.K. law. There was a big debate ov

Information & Ethics committee  I think the reaction to the Cambridge Analytica scandal worldwide shows that we have a visceral response to it. We don't know exactly why it upsets us, but it became a household name around the world overnight. To that specific thing, we understand that there are incentives at pl

Information & Ethics committee  It's an important start. The level of transparency required to hold this kind of advertising accountable needs to be maximal, I believe. For example, most Facebook users are not aware that political parties and campaigns upload their voter registration files into Facebook to targ

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I'd like the opportunity to go back and reread the report with that question in mind, but I think I admire the audacity of the report to cross potentially a third rail of how our political parties are supposed to be regulating themselves on these issues. That, in my observation,

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you to the chair, the vice-chair, and the committee members for the opportunity to give evidence today. I have followed the work of this committee as it relates to Cambridge Analytica fairly closely, especially as it has intersected with investigations in the United Kingdom