ISPs here can only share your personal information with your express consent

Privacy protections designed to prevent U.S. internet service providers from sharing or selling subscribers’ personal information with third parties — without permission — were dismantled by U.S. Congress on Tuesday.

It means that information about the apps American internet subscribers use, the websites they visit, and the things they purchase online — among other things — can potentially be tracked, shared, and monetized by third parties, unless those users opt out.

You might be pleased to learn that Canada, which often follows the U.S. lead on technology issues, has taken a different approach. Here, internet service providers can only share your personal information with third parties with your express consent.

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Tamir Israel, a staff lawyer at the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, says you have the privacy commissioner of Canada and the CRTC to thank.

Both organizations have released decisions in recent years that effectively limit the information internet service providers can collect and use for secondary purposes, such as marketing, without your consent………………

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http://www.cbc.ca/1.4046512

No, your Canadian internet service provider can’t sell your information as in the U.S.

Minutes of Settlement

Whereas the Union has filed Grievance  claiming the Company has developed an unreasonable and arbitrary rule concerning availability when not scheduled for work as an extension of its attendance policy, Including the requirement to carry phones and check for schedule changes when not scheduled to work;

Whereas the core of the grievance Is the fact that the Company has disciplined Regular Part­ Time employees (“RPT”) and Senior Part-Time employees (“SPT”) that did not show up to work on-non-guaranteed days of rest (“NGR”) pursuant to a scheduled day of rest (“DOR”);

Whereas the parties are desirous of settling this matter amicably, without any admission of liability or of wrongdoing;

THE PARTIES AGREE AS FOLLOWS:

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