Information & Ethics committee  My understanding is that these are still photographs taken at a point in time. They're snapshots at a point in time. They can capture other compromising information, but they are a snapshot in time.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, one of the key outcomes and messages coming out of this investigation is that although Google has a large responsibility, there is the other side of the coin, which is that individuals and organizations who use wireless networks have to adopt the protective measures ne

Information & Ethics committee  The first thing you can do, as a citizen, is to Google-map the area of your neighbourhood. That's for starters.

Information & Ethics committee  That's a very nice question. Thank you. We may take you up on that on further reflection and send those recommendations back to you. I'm sure our office would be pleased to do so, but let me offer a few suggestions right off the bat, if I may. The first thing I could say is to

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Every year at this international data protection commissioners' conference, data protection authorities from around the world, including the FTC in the U.S., come together and typically prepare and adopt resolutions as a community. There will be resolutions coming out of th

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I think we have every indication to be confident. Although there have not been formal responses to us from Google, we have heard responses in the press, as all of you have, to indicate concrete steps that they have already taken. In the course of our investigation we learned abou

Information & Ethics committee  To my knowledge and to be fair, I don't think they were caught by the Germans. I think that prompted by questions, in essence they caught themselves, identified the breach, and announced it right away. I have no personal knowledge of it, but that's my understanding. If it had n

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, the announcement that Google made when they identified the “oops”, as you say, was a public announcement in May of 2010, announcing to the world that they had inadvertently collected payload data. They immediately halted their automobiles and immediately halted further

Information & Ethics committee  I'll give a few general remarks and then I'll ask my colleague to elaborate. In the introduction of any technology and in other areas of science--and in the case of information technology increasingly so--we've generally taken measures to adopt what is commonly known as the pre

Information & Ethics committee  May I ask Dr. Patrick to address that question as well?

Information & Ethics committee  No. My understanding, Mr. Chair, is that the street-view imaging technology collects the photographic images of your neighbourhoods that you all see on your Google maps when you Google your neighbourhood, as I'm sure you have—as I have. That is a product in and of itself. This

Information & Ethics committee  What they began to do earlier was street-level photography, which they announced they were deploying in Canada. What they announced in April 2010 was the addition of antennae on their automobiles, with a view—I believe prospectively—to also collecting Wi-Fi radio signals.

Information & Ethics committee  My understanding is that when they deployed the product initially and announced they were deploying the product in Canada, as they had in the U.S., it was with a view to street-level photography imaging—

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, initially. And by their correspondence to data protection authorities in April 2010 they announced this now-added feature that they would be doing by placing antennae on the roofs of these cars to prospectively also pick up and publicly broadcast Wi-Fi signals. Now, I ha