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Researchers are getting ready to study “what information is being collected about Canadians and what it’s being used for, saying the public remains largely in the dark on the mass accumulation of personal data,” The Globe and Mail reports. Queen’s University’s Surveillance Studies Centre will lead the five-year project to study the use of big data, the report states, noting the BC Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, Civil Liberties Association and the University of Victoria are among the project’s partners “Citizens have questions about how big data is being used by police, by political parties, in healthcare, education, social services and in other areas that touch their lives,” BC Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham noted. “This project will probe big-data surveillance and analyze its scope, effectiveness and implications.”
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