December 13th, 2004, 11:15 AM
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| Fossil
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: inside the Beltway
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| British Columbia worries about implications of USA PATRIOT Act
for outsourcing medical records processing, and so forth. Privacy has greater legal status in Canada than in the US, and BC worries that Quote: |
[a]s a result of this disparity, Canadian personal information flowing across the border into the US does not always enjoy the same standards for protection that we have come to expect here.
| Chapter 11, "Recommendations", is well worth reading; the conclusions extend far beyond the outsourcing issue. |
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