Trudeau defends Statistics Canada move to collect banking info of 500,000 Canadians.Conservative House Leader Candice Bergen grilled Trudeau during question period Monday following a report by Global News that revealed Statistics Canada is asking the country's nine largest banks for the transaction data of 500,000 randomly chosen Canadians, including everything from bill payments to cash withdrawals from ATMs to credit card payments, deposit and even account balances.StatCan has said it has the legal authority to do so even without informing Canadians or getting their consent in order to build a personal information data bank to analyze things like consumer trends and spending habits.With a long history of government privacy breaches, Canadians are rightly worried, Bergen said. Why are the Liberals collecting the personal data of Canadians without telling them?https://globalnews.ca/news/4608105/trudeau-defends-statistics-canada-move-to-collect-banking-info-of-500000-canadians/
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Trudeau defends Statistics Canada move to collect banking info of 500,000 Canadians.Conservative House Leader Candice Bergen grilled Trudeau during question period Monday following a report by Global News that revealed Statistics Canada is asking the country's nine largest banks for the transaction data of 500,000 randomly chosen Canadians, including everything from bill payments to cash withdrawals from ATMs to credit card payments, deposit and even account balances.StatCan has said it has the legal authority to do so even without informing Canadians or getting their consent in order to build a personal information data bank to analyze things like consumer trends and spending habits.With a long history of government privacy breaches, Canadians are rightly worried, Bergen said. Why are the Liberals collecting the personal data of Canadians without telling them?
