I wonder if they know about that time, in the place with the thing and the other thing?
From the Montreal Gazette:
A man dropped his daughter off at her school, then stopped at the door of a rooming house, lit a cigarette and smoked it. Unknown to him, someone saw him and called the police to suggest that he was involved in some kind of drug activity.
Police investigated, and found that the man had only smoked a (tobacco) cigarette. But seven years later, this man still has a file in an RCMP databank. It’s one of tens of thousands of secret files that Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said this week are being kept inappropriately by Canada’s federal police force.
The man’s file is kept in an “exempt databank,” meaning it is highly secret, and supposed to contain the most sensitive information. Legally, the RCMP can refuse to confirm or deny the existence of information in an exempt databank when someone asks to see it. Few people ask, of course, because few people in such files have any idea that the RCMP has been keeping track of them.
Yup, they know.
[tags]RCMP Secret Files, RCMP Privacy, Exempt Databank[/tags]