Comment Form

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The OPC would welcome further discussions with stakeholders on online identity management.

The OPC challenges industry to find ways and means to help data expire and welcomes further discussions on this issue. PIPEDA is very clear that personal information should not be retained forever.

The OPC welcomes comments on what baseline standards regarding children?s personal information and how they can be developed. The OPC also welcomes views on what kind of framework should be put in place.

The OPC will continue to work with industry to develop the best approach to ensure that individuals are providing meaningful consent to legitimate business practices. This may be an area in which technology can prove helpful in addressing this problem. In that regard, we would welcome comments on how best to achieve this.

The OPC will continue to focus our outreach activities on individuals to help them better protect themselves online. This will include exploring how best to help individuals focus on privacy explanations that are provided to them. The OPC welcomes any comments on how best to achieve this.

The OPC welcomes additional views and comments regarding current and future online tracking and profiling practices (other than behavioural advertising) in Canada.

We heard discussion about the need for standards and we urge organizations to develop strong personal information security standards. We would welcome further input on any work being done in this area in Canada and any suggestions on what the next steps should be. The OPC is open to any commends industry would like to make in that regard.

A suggestion was made that government undertake to develop such standards. We welcome further input on that suggestion.

We heard about the security challenges in the public and private cloud models, but not the hybrid. We would welcome further input on the security issues that may arise from the hybrid model.