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Reconsidering the Right to Privacy in Canada


Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
28(1): 80-91 (2008).

This article argues that post-September 11 political debates and
legislation around security necessitate a reconsideration of a right to privacy in Canada. It looks at the proposal for a Canadian Charter of Privacy Rights promoted by Senator Sheila Finestone in the late 1990s and the current challenges of emergent material technologies accelerated by digitization and political technologies of regulation and governance.