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Information & Ethics committee  No, I don't think so. That approach does not work. In the United States, the entire advertising industry has been talking about it for several years. They have never managed to come to an agreement on self-regulation. Self-regulation is fine, but I feel that it needs legislation to back it up.

December 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Jennifer Stoddart

December 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Jennifer Stoddart

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. My thanks also to the members of the committee. Thank you very much for being so interested in this issue. It is, I think, the most important parliamentary inquiry into privacy matters that we've seen for a long time. I'd just like to say how much our office appreciates your work.

December 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Jennifer Stoddart

December 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Jennifer Stoddart

Information & Ethics committee  We conduct annual surveys. One year, it's a survey of companies, the next year, it's a survey of citizens. Canadians are very concerned about their privacy; they think this is one of the major issues of the future. Unless I am mistaken, 40% of the people we have surveyed identify Internet as a possible source of privacy violations.

December 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Jennifer Stoddart

Information & Ethics committee  I think it's unacceptable that, in 2012, Canada does not have any legislative protection against data leakage—with the exception of Alberta. About once a week, companies or the government itself voluntarily report to our office leakages that affect thousands of citizens and consumers.

December 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Jennifer Stoddart

Information & Ethics committee  I understand, honourable member—

December 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Jennifer Stoddart

Information & Ethics committee  Did you say three minutes?

December 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Jennifer Stoddart

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. Very quickly, then, in one minute: first, we have always tried to tailor the law to small and medium business. Some of the examples I'm talking about here are mega-megacorporations, not small and medium-sized businesses. Second, on stifling innovation, I don't believe innovation always has a direct link to privacy.

December 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Jennifer Stoddart

Information & Ethics committee  I would think so, and I continue to be concerned that we don't have any data breach legislation at the present time, except in the province of Alberta.

December 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Jennifer Stoddart

Information & Ethics committee  Well, I can't speak to the provinces, which do what's in their jurisdiction, but as federal Privacy Commissioner I'm particularly concerned that the federal government jurisdiction over such entities as banks, for example, has no specific data breach provisions. We know that banks are a particular target for data hackers.

December 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Jennifer Stoddart

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. I haven't looked at the size of data breach fines, which are for something different from simply not obeying the law on consent when sharing personal information. My remarks on the size of the EU fines were that they relate to whether you respect the law or generally do not, whether there was a data breach, and whether it happened because basically you weren't investing in security.

December 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Jennifer Stoddart

Information & Ethics committee  That's a hugely broad question, and the issue of privacy goes well beyond my mandate. I only have a mandate for personal information handled either by the government or by organizations. In PIPEDA, for example, we enforce the Canadian Standards Association's code, which is an appendix to PIPEDA, and that's based on OECD work of the early eighties.

December 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Jennifer Stoddart

December 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Jennifer Stoddart

Information & Ethics committee  The culture of privacy.

December 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Jennifer Stoddart