Statistics Canada is asking banks across the country for financial transaction data and personal information of 500,000 Canadians without their knowledge, Global News has learned.
Documents obtained by Global News show the national statistical agency plans to collect “individual-level financial transactions data” and sensitive information, like social insurance numbers (SIN), from Canadian financial institutions to develop a “new institutional personal information bank.”
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Update: Canada Secretly Collected Banking Information From 500,000 Canadians Without Their Knowledge (Zero Hedge)
WNU Editor: The Canadian government is making a joke out of our privacy laws. And aside from Global News (which is the third news network in English Canada), no one else is covering this story in Canada (as of this weekend).
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