Information & Ethics committee  I think there are an awful lot of laws already on our books that address the societal problems and the human nature problems that we see online and in social media. I don't know that having more laws—certainly, not more bad laws—is going to improve anything, so the answer is no.

Information & Ethics committee  If the people in a position to enforce had the authority to enforce the laws, yes. Now we have people who have the responsibility, but not enough authority or funding.

Information & Ethics committee  I think they're very much like the questions you get: What's your favourite dog, your favourite animal or your favourite colour, or if you were a car, what would you be? These are all subtle ways of gathering information about people and their psychological makeup and their prefe

Information & Ethics committee  There are places, well-funded organizations, that promote education, but it's a drop in the bucket. I think it's a matter of public policy to require.... I realize this is not a federal jurisdiction thing, but I'm sure the federal government could have some influence, perhaps, wi

Information & Ethics committee  I've lost the interpretation.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm on English, but it faded away. I couldn't hear the translation for the entire question.

Information & Ethics committee  We're protecting the next generation, absolutely, but we're all fighting against well-funded big tech that insists everybody wants this. Nobody understands it. Well, a few people understand it well enough to object to what it is doing to us. Things have changed very quickly. I t

Information & Ethics committee  Is it a threat to our liberty? Absolutely. It's too easy for any organization to use the information that has been amassed about us to sway our views, to sway views of public policy, government, legislators, teachers, institutions. It's absolutely a threat to democracy and civil

Information & Ethics committee  I have not investigated either of those companies closely enough to know what they gather, but in more general terms, companies do gather that information. Typically—and keep in mind that we're told to respect authority and to give a straight answer when asked a question—people

Information & Ethics committee  I wouldn't go so far as saying it's fraudulent, but it's perhaps misleading. It's permitted under the current legislation and under Bill C-27, which is going to maintain the status quo of the same vague consent. That's not going to improve the privacy.

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. There are two things you're talking about here, I think. One is that the companies or organizations that are supposed to obtain our informed consent at the time of or prior to collecting our personal information acknowledge—as did Mark Zuckerberg before Congress—that few p

Information & Ethics committee  No, it's more than just opting in or opting out. Interrogate the company. Make it so that there is an index of companies where consumers can go and see how a company complies with the legislation. If one company does it in a way that is better than another, the consumer can make

Information & Ethics committee  Spyware.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely.

Information & Ethics committee  I have a challenge with that sometimes. There's a lot, as I said, to discuss. It's the granularity of the information they collect about us—usually without our knowing about it—such as the ride-sharing app we use that records the precise geolocation and the time of day. They ca