"At the moment, it appears that the only effective way to 'opt out' of sharing your personal information with politicians and political parties is to not vote," says an April 2008 briefing note prepared for Stoddart, obtained by The Canadian Press under the access-to-information law.
Elections Canada has been assigning individual voters a unique, permanent identification number since 1997, and by 2007 some 24 million Canadians — 94 per cent of eligible voters — had been tagged.
Those eight-digit ID numbers are in turn shared with political parties, along with voter names, addresses and gender.
As far back as 2006, Stoddart had flagged the unique ID numbers as worrying.
"This goes to a society where we are all numbered, in which then in turn you can start to cross-tabulate the numbers and create citizen profiles, and thus enhance surveillance of citizens very drastically," she told a parliamentary committee at the time.
I had no idea this was what my vote was doing to my privacy..... did you?
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/robocalls-scandal-raises-concerns-privacy-issues-report-190725796.html
Worse than this is the fact that your elected officials then share this information with unsecured third party call centres in and outside of Canada....
Can you say identity theft sanctioned by Ottawa
This is the worst breach of trust committed against some 24,000,000 Canadians by their own government
This is the worst breach of trust committed against some 24,000,000 Canadians by their own government
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