Emerging Privacy Issues for Governments North of U.S.A Mike Gurski Senior Policy & Technology Advisor Information & Privacy Commission, Ontario Canada Privacy 2001 October 2-4, 2001 Cleveland

Reality Check  Current Legislative State in Canada – New Privacy Laws –Government Accountability  Lac du Privacy – Top public issue: 100 miles wide, 1 inch deep  Private Sector –Managing the Issue, Showing Leadership or Waiting for Godot

Emerging Issues: Cautionary Note  ‘When you look around and everything seems to be changing, chances are nothing has.’ Mark Twain  ‘Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in or out of favor.’ Robert Frost

Emerging Issues in Canada  Introduction of Private Sector & Health Legislation Federal & Provincial  Private Sector continued drive to ‘own the customer’ –Customer Relations Management –Channels Marketing –Data mining  Technology fueled by Personal Information –Distributed Computing/Intelligent Applications –Wireless

Emerging Issues:  Public Safety vs. Privacy Rights: Street Camera on Hell’s Angels Hangout  E-government and Online Records –Online Health Records –Smart Cards, Biometrics, PKI  Marketing & Mining the Privacy Space –Implications of Private Sector Activity

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