I see I was beaten to the punch, I was just about to post that same link. I would strongly advise everyone to read PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act). I recently had a fight with a hotel over them keeping my credit card info and so I went away and looked into these laws a bit. When I came back at them with this they back-tracked and appologized so fast I didn't know what to do. Every consumer should know his or her rights.
Lately, every retailer who asks for my personal info gets quite the earful from me.
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