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"In Manitoba, 52 per cent of Manitobans do not trust government to do the right thing to protect their information," British Columbia-based information expert David Flaherty told the conference, citing a 2005 study prepared by Toronto-based EKOS Research Associates for the Office of the Manitoba Ombudsman entitled Privacy and Security, a Manitoba Perspective.
"If it's not regulated, then it's legal," Flaherty said, listing tests to check for alcohol use, marijuana, prescription and street drug use and even tests to check out pregnancies as screening measures."Employees do not have privacy rights (and) that's a lot of information that's not subject to privacy laws," he warned.See the full content of this document
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Web Extra: Manitobans Want Big Brother to Back Off
By Alexandra Paul
A lot of us think Big Brother is watching and we don't like it, a conference of government information and privacy officers was told yesterday.Some 325 delegates at a Privacy in the Public Sector ...See the full content of this document
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