Rights of anonymity and rights of solitude: ethical information management in the private sector

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) guidelines for the protection of privacy form a good basis for creating a regulatory framework for protecting the right of privacy and anonymity in the management of information in the private sector. The OECD framework is based on eight principles, which are incorporated more or less into Canadian law. The eight rules cover collection limitation, data quality, proposed specification, use limitation, security safeguards, openness, accountability, and individual participation. Rights to privacy are more strongly protected under the civil law regime of Quebec than under the regimes of the other provinces.