Comments on: Limiting Collection of Driver’s Licence Information http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/index.php/2008/12/02/limiting-collection-of-drivers-licence-information/ Mon, 14 May 2012 15:12:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Harb http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/index.php/2008/12/02/limiting-collection-of-drivers-licence-information/comment-page-1/#comment-3420 Harb Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:51:35 +0000 http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/?p=164#comment-3420 I have found out that the Alberta Solictors Office is selling the Personal Drivers information to: Collection Agencies and Financial Institutions. Citizen Privacy truley does not exist in Canada. :( I have found out that the Alberta Solictors Office is selling the Personal Drivers information to: Collection Agencies and Financial Institutions. Citizen Privacy truley does not exist in Canada. :(

]]> By: Mary http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/index.php/2008/12/02/limiting-collection-of-drivers-licence-information/comment-page-1/#comment-1836 Mary Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:25:27 +0000 http://blog.privcom.gc.ca/?p=164#comment-1836 I remember there being one nightclub in Toronto where they would ask everyone who wanted to enter for their driver's license, supposedly for verifying a person's age. Their way of performing this verification was to swipe the card through a portable reader. It is only later, when a person's birthday approaches, that the true meaning of this procedure would be revealed: the club would be sending out inivtations for holding a birthday party with friends at the club. The information for this obviously came from the driver's license scan. I also heard from someone in the scene that this information would also be data-mined to determine where in the city most guests came from, what age-groups lived where, etc. I remember there being one nightclub in Toronto where they would ask everyone who wanted to enter for their driver’s license, supposedly for verifying a person’s age. Their way of performing this verification was to swipe the card through a portable reader. It is only later, when a person’s birthday approaches, that the true meaning of this procedure would be revealed: the club would be sending out inivtations for holding a birthday party with friends at the club. The information for this obviously came from the driver’s license scan.

I also heard from someone in the scene that this information would also be data-mined to determine where in the city most guests came from, what age-groups lived where, etc.

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