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Uncivil Obedience
Apr. 26th, 2006 05:34 pm The Canadian Census has been outsourced to American weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin. The census will be May 16.
http://www.countmeout.ca/
Not only is it outrageous that an American weapons manufacturer received the contract for the Canada census, there are huge privacy issues. The American census information has already been used for "terrorism profiling".
How do we minimally cooperate?
Because there is a law stating that we must provide information to the census, we cannot simply refuse to answer the questions. But we can try to make it not worthwhile to hire Lockheed Martin in future. And we can try to prevent our information from going online where it will be easy to breach our privacy...
http://www.countmeout.ca/
Not only is it outrageous that an American weapons manufacturer received the contract for the Canada census, there are huge privacy issues. The American census information has already been used for "terrorism profiling".
How do we minimally cooperate?
Because there is a law stating that we must provide information to the census, we cannot simply refuse to answer the questions. But we can try to make it not worthwhile to hire Lockheed Martin in future. And we can try to prevent our information from going online where it will be easy to breach our privacy...
