Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. I will quickly address two points. The first is that of informed consent. When you find yourself in an emergency situation, a crisis—which I think is exacerbated in the case of the health crisis—you tell yourself that you have no choice. You have to do this or that

Information & Ethics committee  It's interesting, because on COVID‑19 and health policies, there have been two ethical discourses. I refer to documents from the Quebec government on trust and transparency. In these government documents, which are written by in‑house ethicists, they say that for there to be trus

Information & Ethics committee  Mediocracy is sticking to the behaviour of the average manager. Managers do what they have to do because they feel they have to. We are, in a way, caught in a kind of encompassing game, where we dare not question the ins and outs of a problem. Above all, once again, we have to th

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I think the government should ban it. It's hard to hear a statement like that, because it's not often made. Yet I think we should, as a precaution, make sure that this data...

Information & Ethics committee  Critical thinking means trying to identify the ideological motivation for everything we are offered. Why are we being offered such and such a thing? Maybe, indeed, there is a benefit to using this data if it is done in a surgically relevant way. Let's face it, it's like putting

Information & Ethics committee  First of all, to the question itself, I would like to answer with a question that explains the confusion in which we find ourselves as citizens faced with this mechanism: who can answer this question? Who can know if this data is used in a fair way? Who controls it? Are the bod

Information & Ethics committee  First, I would like to play down the situation. For at least a year, we have known that the COVID‑19 pandemic is not comparable to the pandemics that struck down a third or half of the population in the Middle Ages. Indeed, this has been officially established by several countri

Information & Ethics committee  The risk issue is broad. The first mistake that one could make here—I am not saying that this is your case—and that should be prevented, would be to read things in light of a single criterion. We are not in a situation where everything is black and white. The issue is to look at

Information & Ethics committee  In my opinion, the problem is the mechanism itself. It is inherently totalitarian. To monitor people's every action, every move and every purchase, to cross-reference that data, and thus make it so that we know these people better than they know themselves, is a problem right fro

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for asking me this question. The answer is no, quite simply. Studies have been done on how difficult it is to really understand the contracts we are made to sign when we become users of these software programs that collect our data the moment we use them. We all know th

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. I'm a professor of philosophy at the Shippagan campus of the Université de Moncton, in the Acadian Peninsula. I teach ethics and environmental ethics courses. I'd like to quickly provide five pieces of context. First, as we know, the health policies surrounding COVI