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Why we should resist a national ID card for Canada : submission of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration / Robert Marleau, Interim Privacy...IP54-99/2003E-PDF

"The debate about the need for a national identification card may be the most significant privacy issue in Canadian society today. The development of a national identification card would require the collection, use and dissemination of the personal information of Canadians on a massive scale. Canadians and Parliamentarians need to consider carefully the privacy risks that this would entail and weigh them against the likely benefits of such a scheme"--Executive summary, page 1.

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Department/Agency
  • Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, issuing body.
TitleWhy we should resist a national ID card for Canada : submission of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration / Robert Marleau, Interim Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Publication typeMonograph
Language[English]
Other language editions[French]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • Issued also in French under title: Raisons pour lesquelles nous devons nous opposer à une carte d’identité nationale pour le Canada : Mémoire du Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada présenté au Comité permanent de la citoyenneté et de l’immigration.
  • Issued also in HTML format.
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 21).
Publishing information
  • [Gatineau, QC] : Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, September 18, 2003.
Author / Contributor
  • Marleau, Robert, author.
Description1 online resource (21 pages)
Catalogue number
  • IP54-99/2003E-PDF
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