Information & Ethics committee  I will say that it's become increasingly difficult to fake a biometric, as the technology for sensors has improved. Therefore, as we move away from a thumbprint to a face print to—we're looking now at vein pattern recognition on some new phone systems.... We've had palm print tec

Information & Ethics committee  To amplify that, I would just like to say that if the level of access that you need requires you to go to those lengths, I guarantee you there are easier ways to get your data.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Well it depends on how you think about that question. It deals with access, so a record can be kept private. You can talk about making it secure, but you don't.... It's a complicated question. Ultimately, every aspect of privacy is expressed as a security control of some type.

Information & Ethics committee  Do you want to talk about Kevin Mitnick?

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. In the industry sometimes, we don't like to talk about Kevin Mitnick being a hacker. He was a social engineer at heart, which meant he was working human and offline systems to get information, and then replaying that into trust relationships with other people and to some ext

Information & Ethics committee  I wouldn't mind answering that question, or at least contributing to the answer to that question. I don't have an opinion about whether it's a private sector or a public sector function to create that single digital identifier. I do know that, when I hear concepts that I'm going

Information & Ethics committee  There is a lot bundled into that question—

Information & Ethics committee  —and I'll try to set it out. Firstly, I'll say that when you collect data, it's an addictive process. It's easy to do. You collect large amounts of data and you can't lose what you don't have. When I say “go slowly”, I want to reiterate that I see people on their worst days ver

Information & Ethics committee  Could I just elaborate for a second on Ira's comment and respond to your question on whether we should we go all the way to a GDPR-type answer? The answer is yes. I think the global push towards having governments protect citizens, balanced with citizens maybe becoming less inte

Information & Ethics committee  I'm afraid that's a very specific question without a very specific answer, which is how you balance a very complex, multi-variant challenge with a simple clear strategy. When Rene Heller from the Max Plank Institute described an innovation trap, he said it doesn't matter when y

Information & Ethics committee  Thanks, Ira. My name is Matt Anthony. I'm the vice-president of security remediation services. I've been working in information security for over 20 years. I'm honoured to be here today to address the committee. I'll keep my remarks focused on two main areas. Firstly, I'd like