Gun Policy News
Newspaper in the Clear After Publishing Canadian Gun Registry on the Web
10 January 2008
Ottawa Citizen (Ontario)
The privacy commissioner has rejected complaints from firearms owners who claimed their privacy was violated by a searchable copy of the federal gun registry posted on the Citizen website.
The Citizen last year obtained a copy of the gun registry from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police through an Access to Information request and made an online version of the database available to readers to accompany a series of reports on firearm licensing.
The searchable index... (GunPolicy.org)