Canada Study Sees Risk in U.S. Anti – Terrorism Law
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – A key U.S. anti-terrorism law threatens the privacy of Canadians and rigorous steps are needed to protect private medical and financial information, a government study said on Friday.
Current safeguards are not sufficient to prevent the FBI from using the USA Patriot Act to force U.S. firms and their foreign subsidiaries to turn over private data even if doing so violates Canadian law, the province of British Columbia’s privacy commissioner said.