SICMS Privacy Impact Assessment: Passport Decision Support System

A Privacy Impact Assessment for Passport Canada's Security and Intelligence Case Management System, used to support decisions on issuing or refusing passports. The assessment was developed by Global Affairs Canada to meet security and privacy requirements, analyzing threats to personal information. A preliminary threat and risk assessment was completed in November 2008.

Use Cases

• Analyzing privacy risks in government decision support systems based on the described threat assessment.
• Studying the application of Privacy Impact Assessments for systems handling sensitive personal information.
• Researching security and privacy compliance frameworks for major departmental services as mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• The assessment is tied to a specific, high-stakes government system (SICMS) for passport decisions.
• Includes a temporal reference point with a threat assessment completed in November 2008.
• Explicitly addresses the protection of personal information as a core requirement.

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 Management of Information Technology Security requirements.

Time Range

Assessment references a threat assessment from November 2008.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-14 16:01:17.059726; freshness should be verified

Geography

Likely focuses on Canada, given the involvement of Passport Canada and Global Affairs Canada.