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Canadian Privacy Act

Posted by michael on from the bless-canada dept.

Nos. writes "Yesterday, I happened upon an Act that came into effect in Canada on January 1, 2004. The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act protects almost every bit of personal information not publicly available. For example, your name, race, date of birth, income, etc. are protected where your address and telephone number are not (these are generally available in the telephone book). Some of the more interesting parts of the faq include such wonderful things as: '[businesses must] supply you with a product or a service even if you refuse consent for the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information unless the information is essential to the transaction'. Definitely a step in the right direction."

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  1. Re:What the law says and what's done in practice . by orthogonal · · Score: 0, Troll

    here in Germany we have very tough laws with regard to your personal information and how it must be handled by businesses and the government

    Yeah, under that law only ex-Stasi officers are allowed to know where the file folders went.

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  2. Re:and Canada is a socialist state? by mindstrm · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, it's not socialist.. it's just "More" socialist than the US. We have socialist ideas...

    We are not like, say, Norway. THAT is socialism.

    Let's not lump everything together under one ideology.

    Canada is somewhat socialist. We do have crown corporations, for some key things. Not as many as other very socialist countries, by a long shot. We have a free market, a very capitalist society, though not as extreme as the US.