Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Government email to gay community leads to privacy concerns

An e-mail from the office of Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney that was targeted to members of the LGBT community has many people concerned that the government is maintaining databases of highly sensitive information like sexual orientation. See: Government email to gay community causes privacy concerns - Politics - CBC News.

2 comments:

AnneFS said...

Could the government simply have bought a list? See "paid services" at the bottom of the change.org website.

Matt Lonsdale said...

I would have thought they'd learned their lesson after the Rosh Hashanah greeting card blunder a few years ago.