Industry committee  First, I'd like to touch upon this idea of whether we are balancing business interests with the privacy interests of individuals. I think we have to remember that businesses, especially digital platforms, already exert an incredible amount of power and leverage over individual co

Industry committee  Are you referring to proposed section 39, which is the “Socially beneficial purposes”?

Industry committee  When I refer to proposed section 39, what it really serves to do is degrade public transparency and and public trust in our public institutions because of two things. First, it requires businesses to de-identify personal information before transfer to a public institution. That

Industry committee  Proposed section 39 facilitates a pipeline of data between the industry and the public sector. The government can prescribe any purpose or public entity as “socially beneficial” and consumers would never know to question it until issues emerge. We remind everyone of Telus giving