A Preliminary Privacy Impact Assessment (PPIA) was developed for the National Routing System (NRS) Pilot Initiative. The assessment, conducted by Global Affairs Canada, found minor privacy risks related to capturing, storing, and transmitting personal information for passport entitlement validation. The document is available in HTML format under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.
Use Cases
- Analyze privacy risk mitigation strategies based on the assessment of information management and technology practices.
- Study government privacy compliance frameworks based on the described Management of Information Technology Security requirements.
- Model privacy risk factors based on the described risks associated with capturing, storing, and transmitting personal information.
Strengths
- Document is a formal government Privacy Impact Assessment, providing structured risk analysis.
- Includes specific mitigation actions proposed for identified privacy risks.
- Released under the permissive OGL-CA-2.0 license for reuse.
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 security requirements.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-14 16:01:20.143763; freshness should be verified.
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