It seems incongruous that the government would go to great lengths to pass legislation to protect our privacy, while at the same time, allow StatCan to access our banking data without our permission.

Did Equifax require the Social Insurance Numbers of the affected Canadians? Not necessarily, but they did nothing wrong in asking for and collecting it.

The federal privacy watchdog has opened a formal investigation into the Trudeau government's much-maligned online survey on electoral reform.