Talk:Privacy Act (Canada)

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 11 January 2019 and 13 April 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Alips100.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 07:13, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Name of article
The article is currently called Privacy Act 1982, but that ought to be changed because it is not the correct name of the legislation. I would suggest changing the article's name to either Privacy Act (Canada) or Privacy Act. At present five articles have redlinks to Privacy Act, of which two refer to the Canadian Privacy Act and three refer to the U.S. Privacy Act (presumably Privacy Act of 1974). --Mathew5000 08:36, 16 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I just changed the name of the article from Privacy Act 1982 to Privacy Act (Canada). --Mathew5000 08:12, 14 November 2006 (UTC)


 * In 2012, this article was copy-and-pasted to Privacy Act, 1983 but I recently undid that, moving it back to Privacy Act (Canada). The word Canada in parentheses is not part of the title of the Act, but rather is included in the title of the Wikipedia article to clarify which Privacy Act this article is about. The full title of the Act is "An Act to extend the present laws of Canada that protect the privacy of individuals and that provide individuals with a right of access to personal information about themselves" canlii.ca/t/52cjz#id-lt but Canadian legislation is referred to by the "short title" canlii.ca/t/52cjz#SHORT_TITLE__420 which in this case is Privacy Act. Mathew5000 (talk) 01:50, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

History section
I created a history section to outline the creation of the Privacy Act. Historical legislative information about the bill was found in a Library of Parliament Research Publication called Canada’s Federal Privacy Laws. --Alips100 (talk) 23:43, 5 April 2019 (UTC)