Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 22:26:52 -0400
From: Robert Guerra <rguerra () yahoo com>
Subject: Privacy Commissioner of Canada - Annual Report - 1999-2000
Cc: declan () well com
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada <http://www.privcom.gc.ca> has issued
his annual report.
Annual Report - 1999-2000
http://www.privcom.gc.ca/english/02_04_e.htm
Table of Contents
A Commissioner's Reflections 1
The Past Ten Years 3
Bill C-6--Private Sector Data Protection, at Last 23
Trust and Control: Canadians' Attitudes Towards Privacy 29
Personal Health Information: Too Many Demands, Too Little Privacy 32
Progress on the Canada Health Infoway, but what about protection for
patients? 36
What's in a name? The Alberta Health Information Act 39
A lifetime medical identification number for physicians 41
Privacy Act Reform 43
Counting Canadians--Keeping Promises, Building Trust 49
2001 Census--enhancing transparency in the census collection 49
Historical census records 52
SIN, Again 57
A Citizen Profile in all but Name--HRDC's Longitudinal Labour Force
File 64
On the Hill 71
Cleaning up money laundering: Update on the Proceeds of Crime Act 76
Clearing customs: Flying the unfriendly skies 79
Providing taxpayer/business information to provincial statistical
agencies 80
Filling the gaps: A charter of privacy rights 83
Issues Management and Assessment Branch 85
Assessing Privacy Impacts 85
Data sharing at the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency 87
Conducting client survey research 88
Review of Firearms Registry/Canadian Firearms Centre 91
Data matching proposals--births and deaths with Canada Child Tax Benefit
database 92
Incident investigation--loss of laptop in Halifax --Correctional Service
Canada 93
Public interest disclosure--medical information about a deceased member of
the Canadian Armed Forces 95
Reporting on the administration of the Privacy Act--minimal compliance is
not enough 95
Complaints 98
Definitions of Complaint Findings and Dispositions 101
Advice for all interviewers: Never assume the person sitting across from
you can't read upside-down 103
A well-founded complaint about a serious matter--disclosure of personal
income tax information 106
"Smith" the good citizen or "Smythe" the criminal? It's all the same to
some computer databases 108
Appeal board witness grilled--about irrelevant private matters 110
RCMP officer vs. seatbelt violators: Next, he was going to tell their
mothers on them 112
The mystery of the missing missive: Canada Post finds after agreeing to
seek 114
Young Offenders Act: Not all matters of privacy are matters for the
federal Privacy Commissioner 116
Personal information gets trashed-or so Elections Canada hopes 117
Lax information technology procedures in prison cause a dangerous breach
of privacy 120
A case about a case, not properly secured 122
Improper destruction of records: A reprehensible act 123
Information access: A matter of give and take 125
The SINs of our fathers: At least some of them will not be visited upon
us 127
Partial remission of SIN: a fair compromise, albeit another dubious pun 128
Inquiries 130
In the Courts 138
Ten years of significant court decisions 138
Ongoing cases 140
Complementing C-6: Private Sector Initiatives 143
Reclaiming your internet privacy: technology to the rescue! 143
Marketing to children: The Canadian Marketing Association's guidelines 145
Privacy Update 147
The provinces and territories 147
Privacy around the world 150
Stories we read in the news 154
Corporate Management 159
A Tip of the Hat 162
--
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