Privacy Impact Assessments: Public Health Agency of Canada
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Overview
The Privacy Act provides Canadian citizens, permanent residents or individuals present in Canada with the right to access personal information held about them by the government. It also protects against unauthorized disclosure of that personal information. In addition, the Act strictly controls how the federal government will collect, use, store, disclose and dispose of any personal information.
Privacy impact assessment reports
The Government of Canada is committed to privacy and the protection of personal information used in the course of providing programs and services to the public.
To assure Canadians that privacy principles are being taken into account when there are proposals for the design, implementation and evolution of programs and services that raise privacy issues, the Agency's ATIP Office assists in the development and maintenance of Privacy Impact Assessments and communicates the results of Privacy Impact Assessments to the Privacy Commissioner and the public.
- Privacy impact assessment: Vaccine Impact Assistance Program (VIAP)
- Privacy Impact Assessment addendum for Temporary Border Measures under the Quarantine Act (September 30, 2022, and March 24, 2023) – Roxham Road (October 2025)
- PHAC Expert Roster and Scientific Performance Measurement Database (December 2023)
- Addendum to pandemic border measures privacy impact assessment – Temporary orders (March 2023)
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System
- Centre for Biosecurity: Administration of the Human Pathogens and Toxins Act and Regulations (March 2017)
- Quarantine Program (December 2016)
- Tracks Enhanced Surveillance System (August 2016)
- National Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) Surveillance System (HASS) (April 2016)
- Canadian Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System (CCASS) (March 2016)
- International Health Regulations National Focal Point (NFP) Office (November 2016)
- All Events Response Operations (July 2015)
- National Autism Spectrum Disorder Surveillance System (NASS)
Completed privacy compliance evaluations
- COVID-19 designated quarantine facilities and privacy (August 2021)
- COVID-19 on-site compliance verification
- Quarantine Case Management System (QCMS) (April 2022)
- COVID-19 quarantine compliance and enforcement (Compliance Call Campaign 4.0 and 5.0) [July 2021]
- COVID-19 border measures phase 4 (June 2021)
- VaccineConnect's Immunization Program Management Module (May 2021)
- COVID-19: Compassionate entry for travellers and limited release from quarantine (January 2021)
- COVID-19: Application of the Quarantine Act border measures (compliance verification call centre - PHAC 2 and 3) (November 2020)
- COVID-19: Application of the Quarantine Act border measures (ArriveCAN 2) (July 2020)