Privacy and the USA Patriot Act

Th e need to deal with the threat of terrorism other things, it created new terrorism off ences under may appear much more immediate and easier to the Criminal Code and amended the defi nition of understand than the need to maintain the basic civil “threats to the security of Canada” in the Canadian rights to which we have become accustomed. [...] It does this by restricting objective was to elicit the views of governments, the collection, use and disclosure of personal members of the public, businesses, labour information by public bodies and by requiring organizations and other interest groups and then, in personal information in the hands of public bodies a short space of time and following as open a process to be protected by reasonable [...] Th is report assesses the implications of respecting the privacy of personal information of the USA Patriot Act in the context of compliance resonates in the submissions, including those from with FOIPPA when British Columbia public bodies outsource service providers, but raises the issue of how enter into outsourcing arrangements with US-linked much privacy counts in an age of global data fl ows [...] Act on the privacy of personal information about With the collapse of many trade barriers and the Canadians are really part of a much broader issue — the extent to which Canada and other countries share explosion of information technology, the outsourcing personal information about their citizens with each 25 PRIVACY AND THE USA PATRIOT ACT other, and the extent to which information that has Struc