Your Right to Privacy vs. Your Right to Know
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Privacy is an integral part of a democratic society. Respect for privacy is the acknowledgment of respect for human dignity and of the individuality of each person.

The use of new technologies such as computers, electronic bugs, and wiretap devices threaten us with unwarranted surveillance of our affairs. This program examines existing rights under the Privacy Act, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the Criminal Code. It also discusses different types of invasions of privacy: forcible entry; search and seizure; and disclosure of communications between husbands and wives, doctors and patients, and parents and children.

The right to privacy is in constant competition with the need to know. Freedom of information usually involves disclosure of information, collected by someone else, affecting yet another person's interests. The Access to Information Act ensures that every Canadian citizen and landed immigrant has the right to see records under the control of federal government institutions, unless that right has specifically been taken away by law. The discussion includes existing legislation that limits access to information and why access might be refused. 34 min.

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