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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – After testimony from Canadian bankers showed the financial targeting of some Freedom Convoy supporters might have breached privacy laws, Members of Parliament (MP) from the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) are demanding that a federal privacy overseer look into the matter.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Canada’s federal Privacy Commissioner is being asked to determine whether the freezing of bank accounts complied with an Act of Parliament.
The bankers’ testimony suggested the financial blacklisting of Freedom Convoy supporters may have breached Canada’s Privacy Act, said CPC MP Adam Chambers.
“Institutions received no instruction on how to properly store, keep or use the data received from the RCMP,” Chambers wrote in a letter to the Privacy Commissioner.
Chambers noted how there were “no limits placed or instructions provided regarding how receiving institutions may use or rely on data received even after the Act’s use had expired.”
He also wrote that no “instructions were provided on how
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