Industry committee  As an idea, sure, but then how do you operationalize and police it? How do you make sure the companies are actually complying with the legislation? They've done a poor job of complying with 20-year-old privacy laws. What's going to make this any different or any better?

Industry committee  Yes, if I may. I think it's a terrific idea if the law requires that the regulator and others be fully funded so that they can actually do the job they are tasked with doing, and if they are able to write it into AIDA when it's split out from Bill C-27 and becomes its own, pleas

Industry committee  Should we make them more widely used? Yes, absolutely. The problem comes in when many organizations leave it to the operational people in the departments to do the preliminary assessment, such as on whether they think this new product or system or whatever will have an impact, wh

Industry committee  We should, but we also need to have the people as the GDPR requires. The people who are in the position to do the PIAs, the privacy officers, must be independent within the organization and speak directly to the highest level of executive in that organization. Now they are unde

Industry committee  I will offer a quick comment. There is some concern as to who will be appointed and by whom. If there's only going to be one privacy expert on the tribunal, who is appointed by the industry ministry, whose interest is to promote commerce, it undermines fairness. We also are conce

Industry committee  I think you're being very generous at five. It's a starting point. It has drawn attention. It has turned your minds, and the discussions have turned your minds to some of the very many problems that have to be faced. As a starting point...yes, okay. As to what it is now, I'd say

Industry committee  We have seen with the GDPR that the comprehensiveness of that regulation and its extrajurisdictional applicability became the global standard very quickly. It was a bar that was set high. Yes, a lot of organizations and a lot of companies whined and complained and said that it wa

Industry committee  Thank you. Yes, the issue of consent has been a challenge the whole time. Even under PIPEDA and other privacy laws, an organization is not supposed to be able to refuse to provide the good or service just because you refuse to provide consent. However, they all do, and that hasn

Industry committee  Consent fatigue I don't think is a problem. As you say, people don't read these things, first of all, because the last time I counted.... I do read them sometimes—or often. The last time I counted, for Google and its primary websites, the combined length of the privacy policies w

Industry committee  Thank you. Thank you for inviting me to share some views about Bill C-27 on behalf of the Privacy and Access Council of Canada, an independent, non-profit and non-partisan organization that is not funded by government or by industry. Our members in public, private and non-profi

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Having it in law is necessary. It has to be clear, not open to interpretation by an organization that wants to use the law to its advantage and not for the sake of clarity. But I caution saying, well, we have new legislation, Bill C-27, the artificial intelligence data act,

Information & Ethics committee  Very much. My view as a Canadian and as a taxpayer is that government and our law enforcement agencies are there to serve the public, not hide from it. It just doesn't come across as being deserving of trust. Trust has to be earned. To just flatly refuse a parliamentary committee

Information & Ethics committee  Well, it certainly is concerning that there's a lack of clarity. It just seemed evasive.

Information & Ethics committee  I think it's a problem that they are not collaborating with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada in advance but only after they get caught with their hands in the cookie jar. I think they're doing themselves and every law enforcement agency across the country a disser

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely, and I think Canadians need to be engaged to understand not only what's at stake nationally, but personally. Again, I go back to education, and it's mandatory, because otherwise, they have no option whether personally or in a corporate or government role to take the wo