Information & Ethics committee  If I could, I will begin. To go back to the issue of cloud providers and Amazon, I believe the Government of Ontario, under the prior government, has already outsourced a number of its database servers to Amazon web services. From a privacy and security point of view, I think it'

Information & Ethics committee  That's why, despite this notion of the cloud that is very porous with server farms all over the world, many countries have negotiated agreements where data centres for certain types of data need to be located within national boundaries. That really shouldn't be a limitation for

Information & Ethics committee  For me, the key issue here is one of resilience and openness. When you go back to the Estonian model—which I appreciate everybody is getting a little fatigued hearing about—when they started using e-voting in that country, they put out their source code as open source and challen

Information & Ethics committee  That was me. The quote itself was limited to the “data activists” part. It wasn't suggesting that citizens need to challenge governments, just to be clear on that.

Information & Ethics committee  I was pointing out that sometimes governments need to restrict privacy rights for a variety of reasons or think about limits to privacy rights, whether for service improvements or service integration in terms of information sharing, or for a whole host of security reasons when in

Information & Ethics committee  The Sidewalk Labs example is interesting. I'm a little more hopeful on that front that, perhaps, with more transparency and open negotiation, a framework will emerge that balances the public and private interests. I think these sorts of examples are going to be very important to

Information & Ethics committee  I think this is one of the most interesting contradictions or paradoxes of government right now, this notion of privacy protection and the idea of using information only for the reason it's collected.... Let's be clear, that contradicts a lot of what governments are promising to

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much. I'm just going to read a brief opening statement, in order to discipline myself to stay within our time limits today. Good afternoon, Chair, members of the committee and esteemed colleagues. I wish to thank the committee for this opportunity today. I am p