Three federal institutions acknowledged not fulfilling a privacy directive when they appeared before the standing committee on access to information, privacy and ethics on Tuesday.
Senior Canadian Defence Department IT officials have been rebuked by an MP for not doing a privacy impact assessment on software that can extract personal data from military members' government-issued computing devices. Parliament's privacy and ethics committee has been looking into a news report that 13 federal departments including defence have access to
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With a ninth province now indicating it will stop housing immigration detainees in its jails, advocates and lawyers say there needs to be a focus on community-based alternatives that respect the human rights and dignity of those individuals.
Light penalties and lax border security are combining with booming overseas demand to create a lucrative market for crime rings, law-enforcement specialists say.