Privacy Impact Assessment for Canada's E-Passport Project

A Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) was developed for Passport Canada's e-passport project to evaluate compliance with the Privacy Act. The assessment reflects an evaluation of privacy risks and mitigation steps, submitted as part of a Treasury Board Submission for Preliminary Project Approval in June 2005. This document is published by Global Affairs Canada under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Assessing privacy risk frameworks for biometric identification systems based on the described PIA methodology.
• Evaluating government project compliance with the Privacy Act based on the assessment's stated purpose.
• Studying early-stage privacy considerations for radio frequency chip (RFID) travel documents based on the e-passport project context.

Strengths

• Document is a formal Privacy Impact Assessment, a structured evaluation required for major government services.
• Explicitly states its purpose is to evaluate compliance with the Privacy Act and other relevant legislation and policies.
• Includes a specific historical reference point: a draft PIA Executive Summary was submitted in June 2005.

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.
• The assessment was conducted before the project started, so it reflects anticipated rather than operational risks.

Provenance

Source

Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada

Collection Method

Developed as a formal Privacy Impact Assessment for a government project.

Time Range

Assessment relates to a project with a submission dated June 2005.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-13 13:51:35.865291; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada