tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20997270.post5350813391518215218..comments2023-06-12T12:25:13.371-05:00Comments on A Climenhaga Home: Committing -- Canadian StyleClimenheisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01989459133238230712noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20997270.post-78622690859898333612007-01-19T16:41:00.000-06:002007-01-19T16:41:00.000-06:00Two further thoughts. One: You lost a response too...Two further thoughts. One: You lost a response too. Maybe we're not supposed to be speaking about this! Two: I see that I did connect the Privacy Legislation and the Charter in my original post. My re-wording in response to your comment is more accurate.<br /><br />I would note that privacy laws in Pennsylvania and Manitoba take related but different shapes. Similar social forces are at work, but within two different legal systems.Climenheisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01989459133238230712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20997270.post-12050986914440149222007-01-19T14:19:00.000-06:002007-01-19T14:19:00.000-06:00These indicate American examples of the same cultu...These indicate American examples of the same cultural assumption at work. We need to protect individuals, and privacy rights are critical; but the way we are working them out seems flawed to me, at best.<br /><br />The aims for which the legislation works may be good; the means used are destructive of community.<br /><br />I would not say, by the way, that the privacy act is a consequence of the Charter; rather I would say that both are outworkings of the impulse to individualism within our society.Climenheisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01989459133238230712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20997270.post-79502317189561856202007-01-19T13:47:00.000-06:002007-01-19T13:47:00.000-06:00I just wrote a whole response, went to post it, an...I just wrote a whole response, went to post it, and it was GONE! LOST.<br />Anyway, I think this is what I said.<br />I am not so sure that the privacy examples that you use derive from The Charter of Rights and Freedoms. For example, in the US hospitals are not allowed to release any personal information because of HIPAA regs (can't remember what the acronym stands for). But, for example, CHURCHES cannot be told when parishioners are in hospital, due to privacy regs.<br />In the college where I teach, I dare not release any information pertaining to a student except DIRECTLY to that student. So, if a student asks in an email what she got on an exam, I can't tell her. And I leave NOTHING specific on a telephone answering machine.<br />Not sure that this entirely relates to your overall post, but just thought I'd opine.KGMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05165941950953938943noreply@blogger.com