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[privacy] Canadian Parliament May Force Banks to Reveal Electronic Security Laps es
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 00:36:37 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I mean, come on. Privacy disclosures "... would have a significant negative impact on consumers"? Give me a break. Personally, I'd like to see this type of enforcement globally, or else the confidence in banking and online commerce will force folks to start putting their cash in their mattresses (again). Via Canada.com (CanWest News Service, big props to Flying Hamster). [snip] A House of Commons committee is expected to propose new rules that would force banks and other institutions to publicly disclose when they lose customers personal information. But the countrys major banks are fighting the idea, saying it would have a significant negative impact on consumers. The issue is about to reach a boiling point in Parliament, where the House ethics committee is in the process of reviewing the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, designed to protect personal information that is used by businesses, the government, as well as health information. [snip] More: http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=3057f5bb-f3a9-4391 - -8970-5892edc2a56e&k=31459 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFFy8IPq1pz9mNUZTMRAq5nAJ9W26i9olL2dk47pnNRmTbodKIjKwCeLDlz 45t2PcR9XixjcHSrk9zjQhc= =YRX8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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