Previous Politech message: "Bob Barr readies bill to disclose Feds' privacy practices" http://www.politechbot.com/p-03440.html --- From: Olsen.Drew@tbs-sct.gc.ca To: declanat_private Subject: RE: Bob Barr readies bill to disclose Feds' privacy practices Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:30:49 -0400 Dear Declan: You and your readers may be interested in an announcement made this morning by the President of the Treasury Board of the Government of Canada. The President announced a mandatory Government of Canada policy requiring departments and agencies to complete Privacy Impact Assessments whenever they collect personal information. The press release is available here: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/media/nr-cp/2002/0424_e.html And the policy is available here in English: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/ciopubs/pia-pefr/siglist_e.html and here en français: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/ciopubs/pia-pefr/siglist_f.html Regards, Drew Olsen Policy Analyst - Analyste de la politique Information Policy Division - Division de la politique de l'information Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/ Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/ Telephone / Téléphone: (613) 941-4755 Facsimile/Télécopieur : (613) 952-7232 olsen.drew@tbs-sct.gc.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Wed Apr 24 2002 - 08:18:13 PDT