RCMP files: An outrageous invasion
Montreal Gazette – Montreal,Quebec,Canada
It’s one of tens of thousands of secret files that Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said this week are being kept inappropriately by Canada’s federal …
Mounties hiding secret files
London Free Press – Canada
In a special report to Parliament, Jennifer Stoddart says the Mounties broke the law and their own policy by unnecessarily squirrelling away files or …
Privacy watchdog red flags secret RCMP databanks
Globe and Mail – Canada
… examined by the RCMP as part of an internal review,” privacy commissioner’s Jennifer Stoddart’s office said in a release accompanying the report. …
Secret Files on Canadians ‘Disturbing’
AOL Canada – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart told reporters in Ottawa on Wednesday that tens of thousands of files are inappropriately stored in secret RCMP …
RCMP Improving Management of Its Exempt Data Banks in Response to …
Government of Canada Newsroom (press release) – Ottawa,ON,Canada
… data banks by implementing all of the recommendations concerning the banks made by Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart in her report to Parliament. …
RCMP culture not mended yet
Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada
Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart has just vindicated Brown’s view with a report that castigates the force for improperly keeping “tens of thousands” …
THE SHADY SIDE OF THE STATE
Maisonnueve – Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart conducted a random audit of the RCMP files, concluding that, in thousands of cases, there was no reason for their …
Forever in the RCMP files
Globe and Mail – Canada
But it is rather chilling, as Liberal security critic Ujjal Dosanjh suggests, to learn from federal Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart that the RCMP has …
RCMP accused of violating Privacy Act with secret files
Edmonton Journal – Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
Jennifer Stoddart made the determination after performing an audit of the RCMP’s two exempt data banks. Exempt data banks, covered under Section 18 of the …
Privacy watchdog says RCMP hanging on to private files too long
National Post – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy chief Jennifer Stoddart says the RCMP is abusing its right to keep some information on individual Canadians totally exempt from …
RCMP improperly hiding information in secret data banks: privacy …
The Canadian Press –
In a special report to Parliament, Jennifer Stoddart suggests two data banks operated by the Mounties have become uncontrolled hiding places for personal …