IMS Privacy Impact Assessment: Global Affairs Canada ERP System

Global Affairs Canada's Privacy Impact Assessment for its Integrated Management System, an Enterprise Resource Planning application in use since 1998. The assessment fulfills Management of Information Technology Security requirements and a policy mandate from May 2002. The document is published by Global Affairs Canada under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Assessing privacy risks for government ERP systems based on the described accounting and procurement functions.
• Evaluating compliance with Management of Information Technology Security (MITS) requirements for critical applications.
• Studying the implementation of Privacy Impact Assessment policies within Canadian federal departments.
• Analyzing the governance structure for a critical financial system owned by Corporate Financial Systems Division.

Strengths

• Document is associated with a specific, long-running ERP system in use since 1998.
• Explicitly links to established policy frameworks (MITS, PIA Policy from May 2002).
• Clearly defines system ownership under Corporate Financial Systems Division (SMSF).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada

Collection Method

Developed as part of departmental commitment to protection of personal information and MITS compliance.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-13 13:31:12.550340; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada