The Progressive Conservatives are preparing for a multi-year battle with the teachers of Alberta. With rhetoric such as “protect the classroom” (implying that teachers are working against teaching and children) and firing off emails to thousands of teachers in likely breach of privacy laws (which is currently being investigated by the Privacy Commissioner), it’s obvious. The [...]
 1940s, Alberta Teachers Association, Conservative caucus, Contract Negotiations, Education Minister, Enterp, Enterpr, Freezes, Leadership Camps, leadership race, Local School, Minister Johnson, Minor Exception, Pay Increases, politics, privacy commissioner, Privacy Laws, Progressive Conservatives, School Board Trustees, Strife, Tories, Ultimatums 900ftJesus has some important questions for the Privacy Commissioner re: the new Harpercon plan to randomly audit EI clients for *gasp* fraud, via taxpayer-subsidized bureaucratic fishing expeditions (House calls? REALLY?): What information are federal employees told to gather through house visits? How is this information gathered? (silent observation, questions, questioning and/or observing people other than the client at the home? What information is included on any reports given to HRDC? What is the format of this information? To what use is this information put? How is the information applied? What privacy rating is assigned to this information? Who has . . . → Read More: bastard.logic: The War Comes Home We have learned this week that the Canada Border Services Agency, under the leadership of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, will be seeking to audio record what travellers are saying in their cars at border crossings and in person at airports. See this report in the Toronto Star yesterday, for example. It is reported there that the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has not been consulted on this plan and no privacy impact assessment has been done. It is the prospect of audio recordings in particular that has galvanized reaction, particularly about privacy rights and the possibilities of abuses that could . . . → Read More: Impolitical: Toews and all his eavesdropping |
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