Blackberry Services Privacy Impact Assessment: Global Affairs Canada

Global Affairs Canada developed a Privacy Impact Assessment for its Blackberry cellular phone and email services. The assessment focuses on personal information collected from departmental employees to provide them access to the approved service. It was created to meet the Department's commitment to personal information protection and Management of Information Technology Security requirements.

Use Cases

• Modeling privacy risk frameworks based on government mobile service assessments
• Benchmarking employee data handling practices for enterprise mobile device management
• Analyzing operational processes for personal information collection in government-approved services

Strengths

• Assessment scope is explicitly defined as Blackberry Services and associated operational processes
• Document is published under the OGL-CA-2.0 license
• Source institution is clearly identified as Global Affairs Canada

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect temporal or source bias inherent to open_canada

Provenance

Source

Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada

Collection Method

Developed as part of the Department's commitment to protection of personal information and to meet Management of Information Technology Security requirements.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-09 13:11:31.650269; freshness should be verified