Comments on: Wow! The Census, Prisons and Legislative Maps! http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/01/17/wow-the-census-prisons-and-legislative-maps/ a gift to you and me accidently on purpose somewhere but mostly in the city Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:26:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: xtie http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/01/17/wow-the-census-prisons-and-legislative-maps/#comment-154 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:32:25 +0000 http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/01/17/wow-the-census-prisons-and-legislative-maps/#comment-154 Thanks T for this blogsite! Very good info. and I have quite a few specific concerns vis a vis privacy in my workplace in BC ... the expectation is from my health authority is would seem that I request people's SIN and public health numbers when they seek addictions treatment (something that was not done in Ontario ... no request for OHIP number and SIN was not even mentioned). BC is very conservative in so many ways! I know a media person here who can f/u on these privacy issues and will forward the michaelgeist site. I am also involved at the moment in a federal Competition Bureau complaint ... see what happens but it is good to know that it takes only six people who are concerned about an issue in the marketplace regarding fraud, deception, etc. to lodge a complaint that has to be investigated by the federal Competition Bureau. Yesterday, the United Church of Canada offered its support in terms of the complaint ... that is so great! Thanks T for this blogsite! Very good info. and I have quite a few specific concerns vis a vis privacy in my workplace in BC … the expectation is from my health authority is would seem that I request people’s SIN and public health numbers when they seek addictions treatment (something that was not done in Ontario … no request for OHIP number and SIN was not even mentioned). BC is very conservative in so many ways! I know a media person here who can f/u on these privacy issues and will forward the michaelgeist site.

I am also involved at the moment in a federal Competition Bureau complaint … see what happens but it is good to know that it takes only six people who are concerned about an issue in the marketplace regarding fraud, deception, etc. to lodge a complaint that has to be investigated by the federal Competition Bureau. Yesterday, the United Church of Canada offered its support in terms of the complaint … that is so great!

]]> by: Administrator http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/01/17/wow-the-census-prisons-and-legislative-maps/#comment-153 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:37:46 +0000 http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/01/17/wow-the-census-prisons-and-legislative-maps/#comment-153 Hey Vix! There was quite a campaign about the census. If i recall correctly lockeed martin was incharge of the web census, so many of the campaigns were directed at getting people to fill out the census on paper. There is increasingly more problems related to the outsourcing of private data and there are many breaches. If you are very intereseted in this topic, you may want to read - http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1622&Itemid=196 Hey Vix! There was quite a campaign about the census. If i recall correctly lockeed martin was incharge of the web census, so many of the campaigns were directed at getting people to fill out the census on paper. There is increasingly more problems related to the outsourcing of private data and there are many breaches. If you are very intereseted in this topic, you may want to read - http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1622&Itemid=196

]]> by: xtie http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/01/17/wow-the-census-prisons-and-legislative-maps/#comment-152 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:28:02 +0000 http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2007/01/17/wow-the-census-prisons-and-legislative-maps/#comment-152 I don't know if you remember when I brought the issue up about my social insurance number being linked to my benefit plan at my workplace and my consequent rant about this intrusion on privacy (a blog entry). At that time, my journalist friend LL (who has done quite a lot of research on privacy issues) wrote me back: "It’s as creepy as Stats Can hiring freaking Lockheed Martin to do the data crunching on any of their online census forms. (BW found out about that ~after~ he filled out the online census form.) Stats Can says Lockheed Martin can’t look at the data — they just provide hardware (and IBM and Transcontintental Printing provide software and printing…). But with the fascist U.S. Patriot Act a creepy reality, it’s scary to think Lockheed Martin has ANYTHING to do with the census (not to mention ethical issues of doing biz with the War Industry). Did you know that Stats Can has now outsourced census data collection to Lockheed Martin? I think this was raised because I mentioned that BC has outsourced data collection for its provincial health care plan data to IBM. Something I am concerned about. Obviously there are lots of issues regarding census collection. I fear the next move will be to give the contract to Diebold (makers of voting machines as well as ATMs ....). I don’t know if you remember when I brought the issue up about my social insurance number being linked to my benefit plan at my workplace and my consequent rant about this intrusion on privacy (a blog entry).

At that time, my journalist friend LL (who has done quite a lot of research on privacy issues) wrote me back:

“It’s as creepy as Stats Can hiring freaking Lockheed Martin
to do the data crunching on any of their online census forms. (BW found
out about that ~after~ he filled out the online census form.) Stats Can
says Lockheed Martin can’t look at the data — they just provide hardware
(and IBM and Transcontintental Printing provide software and
printing…). But with the fascist U.S. Patriot Act a creepy reality, it’s scary to think Lockheed Martin has ANYTHING to do with the census (not to mention
ethical issues of doing biz with the War Industry).

Did you know that Stats Can has now outsourced census data collection to Lockheed Martin?

I think this was raised because I mentioned that BC has outsourced data collection for its provincial health care plan data to IBM. Something I am concerned about.

Obviously there are lots of issues regarding census collection. I fear the next move will be to give the contract to Diebold (makers of voting machines as well as ATMs ….).

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