Canada: Federal Departments

federal departments: The program, in which Ottawa and Washington will start sharing their citizens travel and biographic data this summer, means anyone from Canada travelling to or from the United States by land can have his or her information passed on to federal departments, according to The Star. But the revelation is raising questions about privacy, how the information will be used and whether the federal government plans to use this data to crack down on immigration, citizenship, health and tax cheats and Canadian border officials plan to share personal information obtained under a new Canada-U.S. border data exchange program with other federal departments, has learned. The Canada Border Services Agency confirmed the new practice and said data would be passed on only in accordance with stringent rules. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.