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. |
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| Title | 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 Commissioner of Canada. |
| Publication type | Monograph |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
| 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. |
| Description | 1 online resource (21 pages) |
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| Subject terms | Identification cards -- Canada. National security -- Canada. |
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