Industry committee  Thank you for the question. Commissioner Dufresne made some excellent recommendations around harmonization and so on. As for anonymized and de‑identified information, I know that many stakeholders have told you that the definition of anonymization was very restrictive in Bill C

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to thank all the members of the committee for inviting me to participate in this study. As you know, Quebec has undertaken a major reform of its privacy laws to make them more responsive to the new challenges posed by the current digital and techn

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Once again, I think that the mechanisms can be tailored to the circumstances. There are different forms of facial recognition. There is facial recognition proper, whose purpose is to identify individuals. However, the term “facial recognition” is sometimes

Information & Ethics committee  I don't have any information on that.

Information & Ethics committee  It's unanimous. We can certainly learn a lot from it and adapt it as required.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't have anything to add to what my two colleagues have said. Mass surveillance can indeed be carried out by police forces and private companies, in all sorts of ways, including digital surveillance, but that ought not to be the case.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't have any examples to give you.

Information & Ethics committee  That's a good question, because obtaining consent from people in the context of facial recognition is not always appropriate. First of all, there is a power asymmetry, whether between the citizen and the state or the citizen and a major corporation, like the web giants. Secondl

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for your question. As you know, Quebec's access to information commission was involved in the joint investigation, with its counterparts from the federal government, Alberta and British Columbia. After that, we issued an order under our own provincial authority. Our de

Information & Ethics committee  To summarize the decision as a whole, there is the commission's authority to issue the order, since it's an American firm, and also all our legal conclusions pertaining to compliance with Quebec's act.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for your question. The Quebec act is definitely a start, but we've previously submitted recommendations for improving it to Quebec parliamentarians. For example, the framework currently establishes obligations only where biometrics and facial recognition are used to ve

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning and thank you for this invitation to discuss facial recognition. Building on my colleagues' remarks, I would briefly like to address the problems raised by other uses of this technology and to outline what is provided under Quebec legislation.