Very quickly, another serious concern raised by our researchers has to do with the effect of the Public Safety Act when it was passed into law and the necessary amendments to PIPEDA. It's a real concern that you could have the state getting the private sector to collect personal information for the sole purpose of telling government what that information is--in other words, contracting that out.
In what context does this come up? I guess one of the contexts--to preface that, even though there's not much time--is that in the province of Manitoba they contracted out health information to Manitoba Data Services Inc.. They did it so well that it became interesting to an American company, so an American firm bought it because it had a guaranteed anchor tenant. So now my personal health records are held in Dallas, Texas, by some company.... I have no idea how many times it's been flipped from owner to owner to owner, and I don't know what they're doing with that information.
Maybe I can change the angle of my question. Is there any way for the duty to follow the money, as it were, out of the country in the same way as we do with child sex laws or mining laws--Canadian activity operating outside the borders? Can anybody help me with my personal private information that's being held in Dallas by a private company?