Privacy Implications: Canada Border Services Agency

Canada Border Services Agency: The privacy commissioner is also taking the Canada Border Services Agency to task for leaving profiles of listed people on the Internet too long and failing to assess the privacy implications of the program in advance, according to CTV. But the watchdog makes several recommendations for bringing the program fully in line with the privacy law -- all of which the border agency has agreed to act on and OTTAWA -- The federal privacy watchdog says Canada's border agency broke the law by labelling people on its highly touted "wanted" list as war criminals -- a potentially misleading tag the agency failed to justify. The commissioner found the overall thrust of the "Wanted by the CBSA" program -- since expanded by the border agency -- is consistent with the agency's responsibility to enforce immigration and refugee law by removing people who shouldn't be in Canada, and therefore permissible under the Privacy Act. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.