Privacy commissioner shoots down gun registry complaint

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http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Privacy+commissioner+shoots+down+registry+complaint/2487525/story.html

Privacy commissioner shoots down gun registry complaint



By Janice Tibbetts, Canwest News ServiceJanuary 26, 2010


OTTAWA — The RCMP did not violate the privacy rights of gun owners by giving their names, phones numbers and firearms information to a private pollster to conduct a survey about feelings on the controversial gun registry, says the federal privacy commissioner.


Jennifer Stoddart dismissed a complaint from former public safety minister Peter Van Loan, who last September, asked the commissioner to investigate what he described as an "offensive and inappropriate" sharing of personal information.


"The complaint is not well-founded," the commissioner said in a report posted Tuesday on the agency's website.


The privacy commissioner said EKOS acted properly as a government contractor when it called 10,000 of Canada's 1.9 million gun owners, that the pollsters were security screened and that they deleted their raw data after turning over their findings to the Mounties.....

*Of course* the data was deleted, no one would EVER keep information like that.

Go ahead and tell me it's raining...

Later on in the story, it is stated that the poll was never completed. Guess it didn't turn out the way it was supposed to.

[Hangingon]

1. It is raining- yellow rain.

[tburnsten]

2. That's cute, giving up the names and personal information of two million people

to a polling company, of all groups, is "not a violation of their privacy". That freak needs to lose her job, and the fact that a former Public Safety Minister leveled the complaint sort of shows how fucked it is.

Yeah, I bet as soon as it became apparent that they would be unable to describe the results as something like "a large portion of gunowners approve of the registry" they pulled the plug on that bitch like Kevorkian meeting Terry Schiavo.

[rd_kent]

3. Oh! Cana-DUH!