Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior In a ‘Risk' Database

guest · Feb 28, 2019

Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior In a ‘Risk' Database
February 27, 2019
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...-peoples-negative-behavior-in-a-risk-database

Police, social services, and health workers in Canada are using shared databases to track the behaviour of vulnerable people—including minors and people experiencing homelessness—with little oversight and often without consent.
The Risk-driven Tracking Database (RTD) is part of a collaborative approach to policing called the Hub model [...]

[...] officials say data in the RTD (sometimes called the “Hub database” in Saskatchewan) is “de-identified” by removing details such as people’s names and birthdates, though experts Motherboard spoke to said that scrubbing data so it may never be used to identify an individual is difficult if not impossible.
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What’s in the database?
Hub interventions require cops, educators, doctors, and social workers to share extremely sensitive information about vulnerable people—and add it to the provincial database—in a process fraught with potential for privacy violations.

[...] Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) developed additional guidelines for Hubs intended to ensure people’s privacy rights are respected [...]
But in Ontario, police, health care professionals, and social workers participating in the Hub model are under no obligation to follow IPC’s guidelines, though they are still beholden to provincial privacy laws.

“Privacy is a human right. It can’t be eroded just to make someone’s job easier.”
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kls490 · Mar 1, 2019

Interesting......how the government is infringing on the privacy of those who are not only the most vulnerable, but also not in a position to fight back or really do anything about it!

So long as the 'masses', continue to stand idly by and do nothing, they are just giving silent consent to the government's actions.

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