Build your Business with Integrity and Protect the Confidential Information Entrusted to you.


By Martin Maylor,
Business Responsibility and Compliance Consultant
Insurium Inc.
www.insurium.com

Who steals my purse steals trash; tis something, nothing; twas mine, tis his, and has been the slave to thousands; but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that, which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed. - William Shakespear, Orthello –

The right to privacy is a fundamental value in all democratic societies (1). Article 12 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations (2), and the Canadian and Quebec charters of rights and freedoms (3,4) all recognize the importance of preserving privacy in a free society. With the arrival of the digital age and the relative ease with which huge databases can be created and exchanged, the risks to individual privacy have grown even more rapidly (12). Individual health care information, once entrusted only to one’s physicians or close family members, has now become routinely available to a much broader audience. Canadian Legislation:

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