Privacy Act Requests to Public Services and Procurement Canada

Public Services and Procurement Canada provides data on requests for personal information received under the Privacy Act. The dataset includes records of these formal privacy requests, available in XML and CSV formats, and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in Privacy Act request volumes over time using the request date field.
• Assess request processing timelines by examining fields related to request status or completion dates.
• Identify common request topics or departments involved using categorization or subject description fields.

Strengths

• Data is sourced directly from the federal department of Public Services and Procurement Canada.
• The dataset was updated in March 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• The dataset lacks publicly disclosed row and column counts, making its scale and feature set unknown.
• Sample data is unavailable, preventing assessment of data structure and completeness prior to download.

Provenance

Source

Public Services and Procurement Canada

Collection Method

Records of formal requests for personal information submitted under the Privacy Act.

Time Range

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Freshness

Updated March 2026.

Geography

Canada (federal government)