Treasury Board President Anita Anand on Thursday before a parliamentary committee looking into the federal government's use of tools capable of extracting data from mobile phones and computers. A more robust federal directive requiring departments to measure the privacy impact of new technologies will be ready this summer, says Treasury Board President Anita Anand.
Anand's testimony comes in the wake of a Radio-Canada story last November that revealed that several departments and agenciesThese instruments can unlock mobile phones and computers, even when protected by passwords or fingerprints, and access all data, including information that has been encrypted. This can include emails, texts, contacts, photos and travel history.
Some departments explained earlier before the same parliamentary committee that they didn't feel it was necessary to conduct a privacy impact assessment on the data extraction tools because they had already done such an assessment for their entire investigative program years ago.
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