Why Protect Personal Information?
"This notion of privacy [of information] derives from the assumption that all information about a person is in a fundamental way his own, for him to communicate or retain as he sees fit." R v Dyment, [1988], 2SCR 417
ìÖ privacy ëis at the heart of liberty in a modern stateí Ö it is based ëon the notion of the dignity and integrity of the individualíî. R v Dyment, [1988] 2SCR 417