I thought that data were a government record, and as government records they cannot be destroyed and must be archived. They can be archived with restrictions but destroyed, really?
Also, who owns those data?
- I though we -citizens/public did, since we paid for it,
- and then an argument can be made that those who registered their firearms do, at least their entries,
- then there are the provinces who were mandated to submit data and conform to it
- what about all the agencies that had to comply - police forces, border patrol, rcmp, etc.
Questions:
- Can a government really destroy a database?
- And is a database a government record that must be archived?
Is this how it legally really works:- the feds create a registry and a dbase
- citizens comply as do police forces and both like it
- the Conservative gov. scraps the registry which means destroying the data
- but I though gov records could not be destroyed
- Quebec wants its data to continue the registry in that province - data they submitted and paid for
- the feds won't budge
So who owns the data?
History of tragic shootings drives Quebec’s gun-registry battle
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/history-of-tragic-shootings-driving-force-behind-quebecs-gun-registry-battle/article2239063/?cmpid=nl-news1
If anyone knows let me know, as I really thought the Government could not legally destroy records. If they can, then well, we are in big trouble, as that means the Census and any other dbase.
Cheers
t