I previously wrote about Bill C-27 and how it will make it an offence in Canada to recklessly make available or sell personal information knowing it will be used to commit fraud.
Google, and others, offer tools such as on-line word processing but your data is housed by that entity, usually in the USA, and is thus subject to the US Patriot Act, and other laws that allow government surveillance of your data.
In my view, using these Web-based collaborative tools amounts to Reckless Personal Information Handling.
Web-based Collaborative Tools
The Globe and Mail recently published an interesting article about this:
Patriot Act haunts Google service
by SIMON AVERY, Globe and Mail March 24, 2008
Some other organizations are banning Google’s innovative tools outright to avoid the prospect of U.S. spooks combing through their data. Security experts say many firms are only just starting to realize the risks they assume by embracing Web-based collaborative tools hosted by a U.S. company, a problem even more acute in Canada where federal privacy rules are at odds with U.S. security measures.
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