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?) | Re: changes made by Canadian Government! (was : high traffic POP3d
?) 2003-12-01 - By Guy Fraser
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I just googled for "canadian privacy act " and got loads of hits.
Here is a reasonable article, explaining the respocibilies of international
firms dealing with the Canadian law.
http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2001-all/winer-2001-02-all.html
This article seems to focus on the sale of personal information, but the act
includes the retention of data that could be used for unspecified purposes.
Other private information, that is not listed is :
Banking informaion
Social insurance infomation
...
I can 't remember all of the stuff that is considered private, but email is
considered to be equivilant to postal mail and carries equivilant penalties
if violated IIRC.
The general ask myself is :
Q. If the message came in an envelope, what should I do with it?
A. a) deliver it.
b) hold it until it can be delivered.
c) DO NOT read it
d) DO NOT extract/modify any data in the message
e) DO NOT keep a copy of it
If an idividual has information that they consider to be private, and it
is able to be read by anyone other than that individule, the individule
has the right to request remedial action against the company that has
the data. Since there is no way of ensuring the data can not be read
the best practice is not to store the data once the data has been
retrieved.
If you want to cover your butt, make sure any data that may contain
private information is delivered to the intended recipient and not
retained in any way.
R. McFarlane wrote:
> At 10:17 AM 11/28/2003, Guy Fraser, had this to say :
>
> > 4) In Canada as of Jan 2004, Any mail on the mail server must be
> > available to the
> > customer, even if the account is suspended, all new mail must be
> > rejected indicating
> > that the account is suspended.
>
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>
> Does anyone have any links to more information on these changes coming
> in the new year?! I have searched in Google, but am not getting any
> results.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> R. McFarlane
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