Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I would add that we have trouble understanding why there is so much reluctance to adopt an order-making power at the federal level when it seems to be working very well in all three provinces, Quebec included, not just British Columbia and Alberta. The reason we've pointed

Information & Ethics committee  I have a question of clarification. Are you asking about the businesses' understanding of their obligations under the act or about the consumers' understanding of the businesses' practices?

Information & Ethics committee  You're talking about consumers. I would agree with what John stated, that the intention of this legislation is to ensure informed consent, which means the knowledge, the full knowledge of individuals about what the business is doing with their personal information. That is not s

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. We did scientific readability tests on the 61, I think it was, privacy policies we had overall. They all measured way above average. The average was way above average. I don't have it before me now, but on the scales we measured it, we did eight or ten different readability

Information & Ethics committee  You're asking for specifics on how the notice should be delivered or on what should be in the notice.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, our recommendation--and I'll let the others speak to this too--is that notification should generally be by mail, but electronic and substitute notice should be permitted, as appropriate. I think there should be some flexibility there for organizations, but we do think this i

Information & Ethics committee  That's a good question. We haven't proposed registered mail specifically, but it's something to think about.

Information & Ethics committee  Very few have gone to court. Most of those that have were settled.

Information & Ethics committee  I have a bit of difficulty with that. First of all, she and previous commissioners have had a lot of time to use these other powers. We also have some concern that some of the messages we've been getting from the Privacy Commissioner's office suggest that there is an interpreta

Information & Ethics committee  That's a very good question. I was asking myself that. We didn't study that. It's very hard to do. I was trying to think of how I would construct a study to try to measure the effectiveness of the legislation, for example, business compliance. I suppose what we could try to do in

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today. Good afternoon, members of the committee. In the few minutes I have, I'd like to go over some of the key findings of CIPPIC's two recent studies, which were mailed to each of you last week. I'll