Information & Ethics committee  It really is about the way it's inputted into the system, again. I worked on biometric standards for about 10 years actually and it was interesting. There was always discussion about the input into the system and taking a fingerprint and putting the fingerprint in. There was alwa

Information & Ethics committee  Sorry, I just want to add that we have to get to a point where we make the data almost useless. What is important is the validation that comes with the data. Therefore, if there is an attack—a social engineering attack or otherwise—where the data is collected by the attackers and

Information & Ethics committee  I think there are a couple of things there. It depends on who the “we” are. In the service where there's an identity network, the network never needs to see the protected information, right? Sure, it has to send it. It has to hold it temporarily until the receiver of the informa

Information & Ethics committee  Briefly, the expectation for this service is that all of these departments and authoritative sources of information participate in this ecosystem so that when I as a user need to share information from these multiple sources, I can do that through the service with no expectation

Information & Ethics committee  Sure.

Information & Ethics committee  Good afternoon. I am Rene McIver, chief security and privacy officer at SecureKey. I'd like to begin by thanking the committee for giving us the opportunity to participate in its study on privacy and digital government services. My background is in crypto-mathematics, biometric