Data Matching

Educational Material

Data matching is an activity that enables organizations to aggregate, manipulate, sort, and analyze large and complex datasets that generate information useful to organizations. However, data matching can have significant impacts on privacy. This paper provides an overview of what data matching is, why current access and privacy legislation in Saskatchewan is inadequate in addressing the access and privacy challenges presented by data matching, and recommendations by the Information and Privacy Commissioner on how to deal with such challenges.

Data Matching

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