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To dismiss in a cavalier fashion the legitimate privacy concerns about the collection of personal information under the government's census mandate is not conducive to fair public debate, says Laurentian University professor.
Unlike many critics of the government's decision to abandon the long census, Trudo Lemmens (("Is privacy really at the heart of mandatory census change?" The Hill Times, Aug. 23) doesn't dismiss the privacy rationale as a front for some less noble hidden reason. Rather, he dismisses it because it is based on "fundamental misunderstanding of the concept." If we understand privacy properly, he argues, we will see that privacy is not an issue with the long census. I argue that, ironically, Lemmens' dismissal of the privacy concern is itself based on a "fundamental misunderstanding of the concept."
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Respect for privacy and data protection not same thing
To dismiss in a cavalier fashion the legitimate privacy concerns about the collection of personal information under the government's census mandate is not conducive to fair public debate, says Laurentian University professor.
Unlike many critics of the government's decision to abandon the long census, Trudo Lemmens (("Is privacy really at the heart of mandatory census change?" The Hill Times, Aug. 23) doesn't dismiss the privacy rationale as a front for some less noble hidden reason. Rather, he dismisses it because it is based on "fundamental misunderstanding of the concept." If we understand privacy properly, he argues, we will see that privacy is not an issue with the long census. I argue that, ironically, Lemmens' dismissal of the privacy concern is itself based on a "fundamental misunderstanding of the concept."
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