Here is a reasonable article, explaining the respocibilies of international firms dealing with the Canadian law.
http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2001-all/winer-2001-02-all.html
This article seems to focus on the sale of personal information, but the act includes the retention of data that could be used for unspecified purposes.
Other private information, that is not listed is : Banking informaion Social insurance infomation ...
I can't remember all of the stuff that is considered private, but email is considered to be equivilant to postal mail and carries equivilant penalties if violated IIRC.
The general ask myself is :
Q. If the message came in an envelope, what should I do with it? A. a) deliver it. b) hold it until it can be delivered. c) DO NOT read it d) DO NOT extract/modify any data in the message e) DO NOT keep a copy of it
If an idividual has information that they consider to be private, and it is able to be read by anyone other than that individule, the individule has the right to request remedial action against the company that has the data. Since there is no way of ensuring the data can not be read the best practice is not to store the data once the data has been retrieved.
If you want to cover your butt, make sure any data that may contain private information is delivered to the intended recipient and not retained in any way.
R. McFarlane wrote:
At 10:17 AM 11/28/2003, Guy Fraser, had this to say :
4) In Canada as of Jan 2004, Any mail on the mail server must be available to the
customer, even if the account is suspended, all new mail must be rejected indicating
that the account is suspended.
Does anyone have any links to more information on these changes coming in the new year?! I have searched in Google, but am not getting any results.
Thanks in advance.
Sincerely,
R. McFarlane
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