Transcript Personal Information Privacy

Christian Vargas
• Also known as Data Privacy or Data Protection
• Is the relationship between collection and spreading or
exposing data and information about yourself
• It also involve the concealing of information that you consider
private and not should be exposed to everyone.
• Personal information is information about an
identifiable individual that is recorded or filed in any
form whether it be on paper or electronically.
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Home Address
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Home Telephone number
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Age, Date of birth, Gender •
Blood Type
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Ethnicity, nation of origin, color •
of skin
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• Religious beliefs
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• Health care/Medical history •
• Opinions about a person from •
others
Marital status
Identifying number SIN, PRI
Credit card number
Criminal records, fingerprints
Resume ( Curriculum vitae)
Educational history
Financial history
Employment information
Exact salary
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Address at work
Classification of job position
Work-related correspondence
Details of employment
contract
• Fact that a person is or was
employed by the government
• Name on government contract
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Opinion about job
Responsibilities of job
Salary range
Telephone number at work
(including business cell phone
number)
• Fax number at work
• Job title
• Security level of position
• This is important because its good to know the difference
between what is consider personal information and what isn't.
• Because different persons have different views on what
personal information is
• It is important to know about ways these information is used
against you for other purposes
• Information is also entered online and is stored online as well
• Social websites always asks for personal information and it
willing given( Facebook, twitter, Instagram)
• This information is entered online and saved and used by other
third party companies
• Because this information is online it is readily available anytime
and anywhere
• As we know:
• Information is used to give a general description about us on social
networks to tell others about ourselves
• It is used for surveys and when you sign up to receive newsletters or any
online site along this line
• This information is used to meet people and find friends
• Under our noses
• This information is bough by third party sites and is used for their benefit
and to promote their companies
• Its is also used by third party companies to build their online database
• This information is also used to promote a certain type of product to us or
similar to what we link
• Companies used this information to blasts us with advertisements about
products we might like
• People who enter this information online is not aware of how this
information is used
• The are under the impression that the information is used online
for the site it is entered
• When told that the information is bought and used by other
sites, they were unaware
• Users are unaware of what other companies are doing with
their information and how they are using it
• The major acts and policies that relate to privacy and personal
information are:
• The Privacy Act
• The Access to Information Act
• Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
• The Privacy Act protects the privacy of individuals by controlling
personal information collected, used, retained or disposed of
by federal government institutions.
• The Act also provides Canadian citizens and other individuals
present in Canada with the right to access personal information
about themselves held by a government institution.
• The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents
Act establishes rules to govern the collection, use and disclosure
of personal information by all federally regulated private
sector organizations in the course of commercial activity.
• The Act also provides for the use of electronic alternatives to
record or communicate information or transactions, describes the
characteristics of secure electronic signatures and the conditions
under which electronic signatures can be used to authenticate
business transactions and to provide evidence in legal
proceedings.
• The Access to Information Act is a Canadian act that provides
the right of access to information under the control of a
government institution. It declares that government information
should be available to the public.
• This is in keeping with the principles that government information
should be available to the public and that exceptions to this
should be limited and specific.
• Cons
• These information is used to narrow down the different advertisement the
bombard us with
• The information we enter online is to build a database that we might not
want to be in
• Information about ourselves is saved and kept online for long times such as
criminal records and other incriminating information.
• Pros
• The information we enter can help our friends get in contact with us
whether it be for school purposes or business purposes
• The information is used to give us a search that is more specific to what
we might want
• This information is used for other people to find us
• Personal information is information about an identifiable
individual that is recorded in any form.
• There are information that can be consider personal and other
information that may not be depending on what u see as
personal information
• This information is bought and used for other purposes than
what we most likely might know or be aware of
• The uses of these information can both benefit us or can be sued
against us