Information & Ethics committee  I think it will be important to mandate that for the Privacy Commissioner—and this goes for the individual provinces as well that have substantially similar legislation—all legislation require that, first, the privacy commissioners' offices be fully funded and that they have a se

Information & Ethics committee  Forgive me, because I don't have the report on screen, but if it affects a foreign national in the same way, I'd say that immigrants to Canada, who are not yet landed immigrants or citizens, have constitutional rights and charter protection, and perhaps that needs to be afforded

Information & Ethics committee  A simple example of something that's going on in Canada, unregulated once again.... We surveyed the residential tenancy boards across the country. It's an app that if you want to rent an apartment or a house, it's a tenancy app. You can't put pen to paper and fill out an applicat

Information & Ethics committee  Between Beyond the Border, Preclearance, the Customs Act, and all the legislation that has an impact on this, we have to look at that not in isolation but as a whole for the entire system.

Information & Ethics committee  I have to agree with you. Keep in mind that the people who are telling us that there is great demand for these new technologies are the vendors. They're the ones who will profit from it. It's as simple as that.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm sorry. I missed the beginning. If I would....?

Information & Ethics committee  I would be pleased to.

Information & Ethics committee  The short answer is yes, considering that several years ago, when I did some research, Toronto already had 15,000 CCTV cameras in public use. That doesn't include what's in stores, cars, cellphones and all the rest of it. Calgary replaced its lamp standards with a new type of lig

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. I'm not an academic. I leave that to you, sir, but I go back to news reports out of the Welsh police, where the senior-ranking officer said that facial recognition—and I'm paraphrasing—came up with something like 92% false positives, and he said that was okay, becaus

Information & Ethics committee  There were many.... Not only am I the president of the Privacy and Access Council of Canada, but for roughly 30 years I've been doing privacy impact assessments and privacy consulting privately. Through that, I have been invited inside everything, from governments and public bodi

Information & Ethics committee  I have had the opportunity to speak with a couple of very senior members of the RCMP, and they had, I think, a solid understanding. They are genuinely concerned. Their hands, I might say, are tied sometimes. Sometimes the technology is bought or trialled by somebody, and nobody e

Information & Ethics committee  There was a professor at McGill a few years ago, with whom I was discussing developing some education to be rolled out to schools. There are media organizations and various privacy commissioners across the country, that have developed little courses, little programs. They're avai

Information & Ethics committee  That is, as I said in my remarks, the consent fantasy. Mr. Zuckerberg himself said to the U.S. Congress that even he doesn't read these things. The last time I counted—yes, I did count—the Google privacy policy, it was 38 pages long. Nobody is going to read it. As a result, they'

Information & Ethics committee  If you're talking about getting rid of the cookie consents, that has become a farce, quite bluntly. You see them on so many websites. There are some websites where you can go in to adjust your cookie settings, but then you can't get past that. You must accept all cookie settings,

Information & Ethics committee  We've already seen that happening in the United States, where the big technology companies have literally written the legislation that is being passed in several states. They call that privacy law. It's not. It doesn't protect individuals. It doesn't give them any greater right t