Public Safety committee  An emerging area within manufacturers is the connected car. Vehicles are generating more of their own data, which is accessible to the manufacturers. That data currently sits with them, and for sure there is information in there that could help mitigate this.

Public Safety committee  I would suggest that one of the largest issues right now, or one of the biggest things that could be done to benefit the situation, is a better flow of data. Right now a time lag exists between vehicles that are known to be on the road in one jurisdiction that move into another j

Public Safety committee  It's an interesting data point. There is value in that data point. In Ontario specifically, the number of people who are actually going and renewing their licence plates has been low to begin with since the changes were implemented. There are much better data points. For instance

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. Access to data is critical. We have an entire team that's out in the market always generating additional data points for our reports. The more comprehensive the data is, the easier it is to detect these cloned VINs. Most of it is done through a sequen

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. There are definitely concerns. The proposed bill as it stands today is very unclear as to whether or not VINs are going to be classified as personal information. I think you've heard from all three of us that the importance of VINs. The data associat

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon. My name is Shawn Vording. I'm a 15-year executive at Carfax Canada and was recently announced as the new president. I would like to thank the committee for inviting us to talk about auto theft, which we take very seriously. We have been