As Statistics Canada plans to build a massive new personal information bank with the real-time financial transaction data of hundreds of thousands of Canadians, Global News has learned the agency has scooped up 15 years’ worth of credit rating information from a major international credit bureau which could include millions of Canadians.
The data harvest was done without the consent or knowledge of those Canadians whose credit history was passed on Statistics Canada.
The requests occurred in October 2017 and more recently in January 2018.
Read full story here: StatCan Scooped Up 15 Years Of Personal Financial Data From Canadian Credit Bureau – National | Globalnews.ca
