UPDATES: (note – list of “RELATED” postings at bottom) 2018-11-16 the BLIND SPOT in Privacy Commissioner’s investigation of StatsCan (getting personal data from the private sector) 2018-11-13 Poll: Canadians strongly oppose Statscan’s plan to obtain the banking records of 500,000 households, Globe & Mail. – – – – – – – – – – – […]
(NOTE: List of RELATED postings at bottom) https://sencanada.ca/en/newsroom/banc-senate-committee-to-probe-statistics-canada-request-for-canadians-banking-data/ News Release Senate committee to probe Statistics Canada’s request for Canadians’ banking data November 6, 2018 Ottawa – Following confirmation that Statistics Canada intends to compel major financial institutions to provide detailed customer banking information, the Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce announced Monday that it […]
(NOTE: list of RELATED postings at bottom /S) Howard Solomon @HowardITWC Several senators attacked Statistics Canada’s controversial plan to force banks to hand over personal spending data of tens of thousands of residents at a hearing today as an unnecessary intrusion of privacy. “I’m repelled by this,” Sen. David Tkachuk told the Senate banking committee […]
Alexander Nix, pictured here in 2016, was recently suspended from his position as the C.E.O. of Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the center of a data-mining scandal involving Facebook. n 2006, a local pollster in Nepal was kidnapped by Maoist rebels while conducting opinion surveys on behalf of the American political strategist Stan Greenberg. The […]
RELATED: (2011 census) 2013-10 Lockheed Martin Census: StatsCan math is wrong on non-compliance. It’s 11%, not 2%. Under oath at the trial of Audrey Tobias. GOOD NEWS: 3 months in jail is no longer used to coerce citizens into relinquishing their Charter Right to Privacy of Personal Information. (But the threat of prosecution is still […]
Let us not go down the path described by George Orwell in The Animal Farm. Forgetfulness of how democracy works, the importance of our Charter Rights, the fact that it is only citizens who will, in the end, defend them. We stand on guard. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/june-11-2017-the-sunday-edition-with-michael-enright-1.4150230/canadians-just-don-t-care-about-privacy-michael-s-essay-1.4150263 3:28 minutes total At the 1:03 minute mark, and which is WRONG: […]
December 12, 2016 The Government announced Amendments to the Statistics Act – – details at http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=18049. Should I have sent out an action alert? (I didn’t.) The changes to the Act have been made, but are not in effect yet – – the Bill (C-36) has not received Royal Assent as of Feb 3. […]
August 1 update: see appended note I sent to the Reporter, Kevin Libin. And his appreciated reply. I removed the copy of his article from this posting (I would have had to pay $250). To view the article, please copy and insert into your search engine: Statistics Canada makes a shrewd power grab – while it can. […]
The publicly funded agency responsible for policing scientific fraud is keeping secret the details surrounding these researchers. Their names, where they worked, and what they did wrong is protected under privacy laws. MY RESPONSE, FOLLOWED BY THE ARTICLE This is an extremely important article. It opens a door through which more information can flow. Many […]
By Daniel Tencer The U.S. government is prodding Ottawa and some provinces to overhaul their privacy laws and allow Canadians’ personal data to be hosted on U.S. servers. PAUL J. RICHARDS via Getty Images In its latest report on international trade barriers, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (OUSTR) criticized federal and provincial regulations […]