Census: Statistics Canada, Canada has lost hundreds of files

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Sunday, 11 march, 2018 07:52

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Hundreds of files in the 2016 census containing personal data of the respondents were lost by Statistics Canada and would be able to end up in the hands of ill-intentioned people, according to a report from the government organization.

“There was confidential information on respondents in these files, and it could be used by ill-intentioned people,” warns the report obtained by CBC.

A large number of documents has been lost in the theft of the car of a Statistics Canada employee while he was staying in Montreal. Nearly 600 long forms of the census are filled by members of First Nations were in the trunk of the vehicle.

The latter, as well as the documents it contained were not able to be found by the police.

Among the other incidents reported by the CBC, an employee has forgotten his bag containing the forms and addresses of respondents in the Toronto subway. Documents containing names, addresses, and phone numbers of canadian citizens have also disappeared, swept away by the wind, at Crossfield, Alberta.