It will continue to apply where there is no privacy protection, and it will apply to transborder flows of information. He also said that Canadian business had called for legislation that would create one market, define a single set of rules and establish a level playing field where the same rules apply to all. For example, the direct marketing industry and information technology companies realize that we need a clear federal legislative privacy framework because we are living in a knowledge-based economy and personal information is being gathered increasingly to provide better service and more specific and targeted marketing. He concluded by noting that while the new Bill covers all types of personal information, nevertheless it doesn t impose onerous duties on service providers, it merely requires consent where commercial use is to be made of personal information. In summary he said, the overarching goal of the Bill is to establish in law a right to privacy without placing an undue burden on business.
Time is of the essence.
If we fiddle in the face of lobbying and jurisdictional disputes, Canadians privacy and business opportunities on-line will burn. This system contains a record for each customer of the store, the chief purpose of which is to keep track of who rented tapes and discs, to make sure the tapes and discs were returned, and that the rental fee was paid. At the time of recording this information, Kingston Video generally told the customer nothing about why the information was being collected and what would be done with it. Most customers just answered the questions when asked by the clerk without ever inquiring why the information was being collected. Therefore it was important that Kingston Video know enough about each customer that it would have some chance of recovering the tape or disc if the customer failed to return it.