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Government: Elizabeth Denham

Elizabeth Denham: But Elizabeth Denham said her investigation did find that government employees regularly transferred emails from work accounts to private accounts, a potential violation of privacy laws, according to Huffington Post. "The privacy concern is if personal information is forwarded from a government email to a Hotmail account, to a Gmail account, to a Yahoo account, that personal information is now sitting on servers based in the U.S. and is scanned by providers for all kinds of purposes, including behavioural advertising. It's also subject to U.S. law," Denham said in an interview and VANCOUVER - High-ranking British Columbia government employees did not share private voter information with the provincial Liberal party, as suggested in a controversial ethnic voter outreach plan, the province's privacy watchdog said in a report released Thursday. Denham said some government employees were forwarding hundreds of emails to private accounts, possibly subjecting them to the prying eyes of the United States' controversial security network. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.