[Ecommerce] USTR report on C-6

[James Love]

In its March 31, 2000 report, USTR has a reference to C-6, the Canadian
privacy law.  I called USTR, and USTR said that the US had not done
anthing, but that it was monitoring the Canaidan law, to see that it was
not used in a discriminatory way.   Jamie


http://www.ustr.gov/reports/nte/2000/contents.html

March 31, 2000 USTR Report:

   Inventor of Trade Barriers 
   National Trade Estimates Reports





CANADA
FOREIGN TRADE BARRIERS 36
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
There are currently few barriers to U.S.-based
electronic commerce in Canada. The Canadian
Radio-Television and Telecommunications
Commission (CRTC) announced in 1999 that it
would not attempt to regulate the Internet.
Early in 2000 Canada passed a new personal
information protection law, Bill C-6, which
requires persons or firms which collect personal
information in the course of commercial
activities to inform the subject of all purposes to
which the data may be put, and to obtain
informed consent for its use. This law initially
applies only to the federally-regulated private
sector (e.g. airlines, telecommunications), but its
application will expand to other commercial
activities in 2003, or when provincial
governments pass substantially similar
legislation.


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