Toronto: March 20 and March 21
http://ccla.org/home/pathways2privacy/
March 20, 2014 | 6:00 – 8:30 pm. Public Panel Discussion & Privacy Fair Venue TBA.
March 21, 2014 | 8:30 am – 5:00 pm. Pathways to Privacy Symposium: …
W could meet for dinner prior on March 20 and/or lunch March 21
I signed up… looking forward to it. I also joined CCLA. I want to be a part of Canada and keep it strong.
I’m feeling better already.
Just renounce and clean up the details ASAP. Most cases not super complicated just emotional ..like curing cancer
Just spoke with Abby Deshman, Says Court Case won’t be easy. I suggested a Principled Statement that other can use in the political and media realm…
Video of these Pathways2Privacy/Parcours2Protection de la Vie Privée proceedings (Toronto, March 20 and 21st, 2014) will be available here:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZzrZJ6vAPkFEp6QHJVka3w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZQRtKYsPIs&feature=share
Please also email the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Publications to request an electronic or print copy of; “Project Title: The Privacy Implications of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)” by Arthur Cockfield – which they funded with a grant, and which he will be speaking about at this CCLA event on the afternoon of March 21st, 2014.
“Organization: Queen’s University, Faculty of Law
Location: Ontario
Funding Amount: $10,000
Project Title: The Privacy Implications of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)
Project Leader: Arthur Cockfield
Project Description: The project will review the privacy implications of the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) in light of Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. Specifically, the project will review implications on Canadian privacy rights and interests of any new agreement negotiated between Canada and the United States to implement FATCA. The project will also examine the interplay of FATCA with other Canadian laws that protect taxpayer privacy such as the Income Tax Act, the Canada-United States Tax Convention Act and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Finally, the project will review how Canadian banks are trying to comply with all relevant laws, and whether these banks are adopting new information technology systems to help them identify, sort, and transfer financial information to U.S. tax authorities.”
http://www.priv.gc.ca/resource/cp/2013-2014/cp_bg_e.asp
The email for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada – Publications is: Publications@priv.gc.ca
Ask for; “Project Title: The Privacy Implications of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)” by Arthur Cockfield
I just got this information from CCLA, which may or may not already here. I wish I could attend in person, but this will be second-best:
Again,
March 20, 2014 | 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Public Panel Discussion & Privacy Fair: “Advancing privacy and civil liberties in Canada’s (emerging) surveillance state”
The Bissell Building, 140 St. George Street
From the Snowden revelations, to evidence of medical information emerging during border security checks, to questions about the data collection practices of the Canadian Security establishment, there have been many recent stories lately that raise public concern about our privacy rights. The round table discussion will be interactive, with our moderator asking broad questions and soliciting opinions from an expert panel, featuring:
Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project
Sukanya Pillay, General Counsel and Executive Director, Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Colin Freeze, National Security Reporter, Globe & Mail
Moderator: Andrew Clement, University of Toronto Faculty of Information
The privacy fair will feature booths showcasing various privacy education materials, including consumer oriented encryption, youth-oriented privacy education, video surveillance accountability apps, telecommunications transparency reporting and interactive mapping. Do you have research, art, or an innovative project you’d like to showcase at the privacy fair? Let us know!
March 21, 2014 | 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Pathways to Privacy Symposium: Helping Canadians Find Pathways to Privacy
The Faculty Club, University of Toronto
41 Willcocks Street, Toronto ON
AGENDA
March 21, 2014
8:00 am Registration
8:30 am
Welcome Remarks
Sukanya Pillay, General Counsel & Executive Director, Canadian Civil Liberties Association
8:45 am
Opening Remarks
Patricia Kosseim, Senior General Counsel and Director General, Legal Services, Policy and Research Branch, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
9:00 am
Panel 1: Privacy for Life: Issues in Commercial Genetic Testing and Health Information Provision
This panel will examine the privacy risks to consumers and patients who engage with private sector providers of health care or testing services or information provision. Health information is an area that has traditionally been deemed highly sensitive, needing high levels of protection when provided by the public sector. However, when private sector organisations become involved, citizens might not be aware of the different levels of protection afforded to their personal information.
Jacquelyn Burkell, University of Western Ontario. “Hidden Surveillance by Consumer Health Websites.”
Kieran O’Doherty, University of Guelph. “Privacy risks of direct to consumer genetic testing.”
Sukanya Pillay, Canadian Civil Liberties Association. “Genetic testing in the workplace.”
Moderator: Joseph Ferenbok, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
10:15 am Coffee Break
10:30 am
Panel 2: Privacy at the Public/Private Interface
We live in a society where the lines between private and public are becoming not just blurred but in some cases erased. While privacy protection has long been treated differently, and legislated and enforced differently depending on whether the information collection occurred in the private or public sector, the realities of everyday life in an online, internally connected (and globally surveilled) world mean that these distinctions increasingly are being challenged. This panel will look at the ways in which public and private interconnect and the need for privacy protections across the interface.
Andrew Clement, University of Toronto. “IXmaps: Mapping Canadian Privacy Risks in the Internet Cloud.”
Micheal Vonn & Kate Milberry, BCCLA. “A National ID Card by Stealth.”
Andrea Slane, UOIT. “Privacy and civic duty: The legitimate scope of voluntary information sharing by private enterprises in law enforcement investigations into cybercrime.”
David Lyon, Scott Thompson, and Ciara Bracken-Roche, Queens University. “Privacy Implications of the Spread of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Canada.”
Moderator: Lisa Austin, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
11:45 am
Lunch and Keynote Address: ”Legal Strategies for Reclaiming Privacy in the Digital Age”
Paul Champ, Human Rights and Labour Lawyer, Champ & Associates
1:45 pm
Panel 3: Privacy Online and Off: Protecting Personal Information
People of all ages encounter privacy challenges as they go about their daily business online and off. When personal information is shared about Canadian citizens, whether it is between social media sites and advertisers, or private sector organisations and law enforcement officers, there are potential privacy concerns. This panel features research discussing the need for privacy protections in situations where personal information is shared and used in on and offline settings.
Christopher Parsons, University of Victoria. “The Canadian Access to Social Media Information Project.”
Abby Deshman, Canadian Civil Liberties Association. “Police Background Checks and the Private Sector.”
Moderator: Tamir Israel, Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
3:00 pm Coffee Break
3:15 pm
Panel 4: Privacy and Financial Information
Financial information is often highly personal and is perceived as requiring strong privacy protection, yet it is also information much in demand by private sector agencies seeking to market financial services to governments, citizens and other corporations. This panel presents OPC-funded research focusing on the current privacy issues in the financial arena.
Alexandre Plourde, Option Consommateurs, “New services provided by credit agencies.”
Avner Levin, Ryerson University. “Fraud and privacy violation risks in the financial aggregation industry.”
Arthur Cockfield, Queens University, “The Privacy Implications of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).”
Moderator: Ali Miri, Department of Computer Science, Ryerson University
4:30 pm
Closing Remarks
@calgary
Thanks! A few of us are going tomorrow night and Friday, for lunch & the 2 afternoon panels. Knowing me, I will take notes and likely post them.
Tricia,
As usual, your note taking will likely prove to be a good resource for us here, getting your personal view on what was said as well. Thanks.
Security threats on top of private financial information handed over from our “foreign financial institutions” to the Canada Revenue Agency and then on to the US IRS. Where do our rights come into play? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-18/irs-employee-took-home-data-on-20-000-workers-at-agency.html
Some useful reading in order to get thinking in anticipation of the Cockfiled FATCA presentation at this CCLA symposium – whether you attend, or view it online.
This resource below provides an interesting partial list of some of the types of data privacy laws that the IGAs were designed to circumvent or supercede:
http://www.cov.com/files/Publication/dc76945c-6355-4f0d-b6c3-e1cc87028464/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/9cd7791a-bc85-404a-98c7-e6cf378a499d/Data_Privacy_and_the_Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance_Act.pdf
…….”..BACKGROUND ON DATA PRIVACY
Under an IGA, the other government agrees to amend its data privacy and other laws in order toaccommodate the collection and reporting of information on U.S. tax residents under FATCA. Thetypes of laws implicated include laws governing the collection and processing of “personal data”;laws forbidding the government from collecting personal or financial data on a group basis, ratherthan on an individual basis with some evidence of wrongdoing; laws forbidding the unauthorized use of customer data; laws protecting an individual’s “private sphere”; laws that may disregard a customer’s waiver of privacy restrictions; consumer protection laws, such as those prohibiting the unilateral modification of contracts; civil or criminal laws forbidding deductions from a financial account (such as the FATCA withholding tax) unless authorized by local law; laws forbidding
discrimination on the basis of national origin; and, in the case of the required closure of accounts, laws protecting the rights of local residents (who may also be U.S. tax residents) to open and
maintain a bank account. …… Other jurisdictions have yet
to propose IGA implementing legislation. It is anticipated that FFIs in an IGA jurisdiction will be able to benefit from the IGA even before implementing legislation is enacted……..”
…”Laws governing the release of personal data may exist at the supra-national level as well. The EU Data Protection Directive, which has been implemented in all EU Member States, generally requires
FFIs to notify account holders if their account information will be processed and transferred internationally, as well as to ensure that any transfers comply with cross-border data transfer controls. Unless the Member State creates a clear legal basis for the FFI to report the account information, the FFI may be prohibited from reporting it to the IRS. Historically, European data protection authorities have been opposed to disclosures of data to foreign regulatory authorities,
particularly those in the United States. The Data Protection Directive also gives account holders the right to a copy of the information sent, the right to correct any erroneous information, and the right to
claim compensation from the FFI if they have suffered damage as a result of a breach of local privacy legislation…”
Those are some of the legal prohibitions and issues that the Harper government and the US Treasury are seeking to circumvent/neuter/abrogate via the FATCA IGA.
@ badger
I have no idea how you dug up that pdf but I will say it makes me want to barf to read how coldly they discuss how to circumvent human rights and privacy laws in order to bring such suffering on a group of individuals which must have been seen as nothing but easy pickings to the FATCA creators. Really sickening. I’m going to soothe the turmoil in my tummy by watching the livestream of P2P or P2PdlVP (in French) in a few hours. I’m thinking the P2P panelists will have a ton more empathy than Covington and Burling LLP. (I had another dream haunted “sleep” last night so undoubtedly that is playing a part in my discomfort today as well.)
@Em,
I hear you about the dream haunted sleeps.
I’m watching the livestream right now. Anybody else care to tune in too?
I’m now tuned in, late. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U11boJmDQ68
@ calgary411
I missed the first 20 minutes live so I’m picking that up now.
The audio is quite poor today so I can only pick up some phrases here and there. Pity because it seems like really interesting stuff. I hope things improve by the time of the final presentation of the day — Panel 4 — Arthur Cockfield.
Too bad about the sound. It is almost time for the FATCA portion, the end of the day.
I recognize one voice in the Q&A!!! — thanks all who are representing us there.
I’m afraid that between the bad sound and my equally bad ears the conference is almost a write off for me. Not because the panelists weren’t really excellent but because I couldn’t make out quite a bit of what they were saying, despite fiddling with treble and bass on our speakers to try to get some clarity. I hope the live audience could hear better. There probably won’t be a transcript because there would be too many blanks in it (unless they can apply a digital filter to the sound somehow). The March 20th panel in a different location was very easy to hear though. Arthur Cockfield is much younger than I had imagined him to be and as much as I was able to tell he made a very good presentation. I had so looked forward to this and I’m only disappointed in the technical problems not the quality of presentations. I’m very grateful to everyone who participated.