Alexandre Deslongchamps reports: The Canadian government won’t reconsider plans to replace the mandatory “long-form” portion of the country’s census with a voluntary version, Industry Minister Tony Clement said. The census, which will be taken in May 2011, won’t include a mandatory long-form questionnaire like the one that had been sent to 20 percent of households….
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Ca: Defence of Third-Party Injury Claims Are Outside Federal Privacy Law
David T. S. Fraser writes: Since the advent of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, there has been uncertainty among lawyers, private investigators and insurers about what impact this law has on the litigation of private tort claims. There has been some guidance from the Ontario courts in the Ferenczy decision, but the…
IE: Methods of collecting school data to be revised
Sean Flynn reports: The Department of Education says it will revise its arrangements for collecting information from schools after the Data Protection Commission warned it could be in breach of legislation. In discussions with the commission earlier this year, the department confirmed it would seek parental consent in relation to the collection of sensitive personal…
Tesco fined for sending junk e-mail By Andrew Phelan
Andrew Phelan reports: Tesco has been convicted of breaching Data Protections laws by sending unsolicited marketing emails to customers. The supermarket giant was fined €2,000 at Dublin District Court after it pleaded guilty to four counts of sending mails to customers who had indicated that they did not wish to receive them. Tesco Ireland has…