A Privacy Impact Assessment developed by Global Affairs Canada for the SIGNET-D network system. The assessment analyzes threats to personal information protection within a system used as a decision support mechanism for issuing or refusing passports. It was developed to meet departmental commitments to information protection and Management of Information Technology Security requirements.
Use Cases
- Analyzing privacy threats in government decision-support systems based on the described threat and risk assessment.
- Studying the application of Privacy Impact Assessments for passport issuance processes.
- Evaluating frameworks for protecting personal information in large-scale government IT services.
Strengths
- The assessment is tied to a specific, high-stakes government service: passport issuance.
- It references a completed preliminary threat and risk assessment from November 2008.
- It was developed to fulfill formal departmental and IT security requirements.
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
- Collection Method
- Developed as part of departmental policy and security requirements.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-14 16:01:16.082241; freshness should be verified.