Do You Care Who Knows Your Secrets In 2098?

Vive will be announcing our strategy for the census in the coming days, but let me say this.

*DO NOT* fill out your census on line. One portion the Lockheed Martin is involved with is the On-line data collection of our census information.

I will not give my personal information to any agency of the US Government. "We know who we work for" indeed.

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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden

"He and others at Statistics Canada "will be dancing on the tables" if they get 20 per cent of households filling out the questionnaire on-line."

They shouldn't even be allowed to wait tables, let alone dance on them.

I'll do the paper form out minimally, and sent it back via Canada Post. With luck, it'll get lost and arrive sometime after the next millenium.

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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush

I remember complaining to Stats. Canada about this some time ago. Since I hadn't received any forms yet I was hoping that our household was not one of the chosen few to receive them. According to the article that is not the case since the forms still have not gone out. I understand it is against the law to simply throw them in the garbage, so the best option as stated in a previous post is to fill out as little as possible.

Frank

Do I care who knows my secrets in 2098? Nope. However, I do care who will have them in 2006 and that they may not remain secret until 2098! I may be one of those going to jail over this one.

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

We'll be cellmates. I know away out, we unscrew the toilet . . .

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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden

I don`t consent to the privatization of the census, therefore, I won`t fill it out should I get one. All unjust laws must be challenged or disobeyed!

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Dave Ruston

Dr. C.

You unscrew any toilet and you know who'll find down there don't you? d'Aquino and all the other porta-thoughtie residents.

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

There will be thousands who will not comply - and the more the merrier! There seems to be a number of groups lining up to fight this, and once again - the more the merrier!

Resistance is not futile, it is an obligation of the informed citizen to conduct resistance to that they know is wrong or could lead to harm.

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If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.

I won't be filling out my census form.

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"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
(Albert Einstein)

There is general consensus that US authorities could, at least under some circumstances, use powers enacted by the USA Patriot Act to make orders for access to personal information located in Canada that is involved in outsourcing of public body functions to a US linked contractors. There is a clear difference of opinion about whether the risk of access is unknown, low or of great concern, and what the implications might be for public body compliance with FOIPPA’s privacy protection rules. Some information technology companies argued that there is no need for additional precautions to deal with any risk posed by the USA Patriot Act. Other submissions argued that the risk is so great that outsourcing to US-linked companies should be prohibited altogether. Others pressed the case for stiffer contractual provisions, legislative amendments or technological solutions.

There is also some agreement by those in the US Government and US Legal Community that believe that when said private information comes into the territorial borders of the United States of America it is no longer the property of non-US citizens and is not protected under US law.


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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.

Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.

"There is also some agreement by those in the US Government and US Legal Community that believe that when said private information comes into the territorial borders of the United States of America it is no longer the property of non-US citizens and is not protected under US law."

Theft is theft. Just because some arbrary invisible line somewhere on a map gets crossed shouldn't make any difference to who owns it, it's owner is still it's owner regardless of unjust laws made by immoral rulers.

The more I see, the more disgusted I am becoming.

So, I wonder when they'll made the next big leap: when you cross into terrirorial US, you become the property of the US government?



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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush

Well you won't get much of an argument from me on that point.

The essence of liberty in a democratic society is the right of individuals to autonomy—to be free from state interference. The right to privacy has several components, including the right (with only limited and clearly justified exceptions) to control access to and the use of information about individuals. Although privacy is essential to individual autonomy, it is not just an individual right. A sphere of privacy enables us to fulfill our roles as community members and is ultimately essential to the health of our democracy.

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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.

Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.

Technological advances and trade liberalization have increased the international flow of personal information in both the private and the public sectors. Data-management companies compete to offer public sector clients technology and services for storing, organizing and accessing information. Governments in Canada and elsewhere have increasingly been following the lead of corporations in contracting out services formerly done in-house.

An ever more complex set of rules and agreements governs the international trade in goods and services. Canada must be careful when negotiating international trade obligations that relate to or may affect the delivery of public services to ensure that privacy protection is maintained in accordance with Canadian values.

These trends in data flows have had at least four effects:

1. As society cannot predict with accuracy where technology will take data management in the future, it needs to institute sufficient legal privacy protections today so that public policy will guide technology, not the reverse;

2. Once personal information crosses borders, regulating its use is at its best difficult and at its worst impossible;

3. Increasing private and public sector reliance on digitally stored, analyzed and accessed personal information increases the risk that inaccurate or limited snapshots of an individual will be misused, whether intentionally or not; and

4. The distinction between business and state uses of personal information is becoming blurred and will increase the risks to privacy and to other individual rights and interests.


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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.

Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.

2. Once personal information crosses borders, regulating its use is at its best difficult and at its worst impossible


Identity theft will no doubt be made all that much harder when corporations and governments can exchange personal info like 1st grades do hockey cards.

At least the 1st graders keep track of it.

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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush