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Tuesday, 11 June 2013 13:19
Canadians Should Not Be Complacent About Warrantless Access to their Personal InformationWritten by Teresa Scassa
The US government is in damage control mode after it was leaked to the press this week that it had established a massive surveillance program under which it obtained comprehensive communications data from telecommunications and technology companies. Privacy advocates have decried this secret and massive data mining exercise. Canadians should not sit back complacently to watch this unfolding spectacle south of the border. It was only last year that our own government tried to introduce…
In case there was any doubt, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) produced a report this week that confirms that Canada’s private sector data protection legislation is simply not up to the task of adequately protecting the personal information of Canadians. The report is aptly titled: The Case for Reforming the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. The introduction to this report makes plain the frustration of those charged with administering…
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