Protecting your privacy
Protecting your privacy
Statistics Canada takes great precautions to protect your information and employs technologies and practices to ensure that its strict security and confidentiality requirements are met.
The Statistics Act specifically requires that information about individuals be protected and kept strictly confidential. The federal Privacy Act also protects personal information held by Statistics Canada.
Security of the online job application
Encryption technologies ensure that the transmission of information passing between applicants’ computers and the agency’s web server meets the required standards of security.
Applicant data are processed and stored on a high-security internal network. Powerful firewalls, intrusion detection systems and stringent access control procedures limit access to computer systems and databases.
For more information, please refer to Statistics Canada’s Trust Centre.
Confidentiality of job applications
Statistics Canada places the highest priority on maintaining the confidentiality and security of applications. Stringent measures and procedures are followed to ensure that confidentiality is maintained at all times.
- All Statistics Canada employees have taken an oath under the Statistics Act to protect your information. Employees remain under oath whether they are working from Statistics Canada buildings or other secure locations such as their private residence. The oath is valid even after their employment has ended.
- Only Statistics Canada employees with a need to know have access to personal and confidential information. All employees go through a justification and approval process.
- Access to Statistics Canada buildings is controlled by a combination of physical measures and access procedures.
- All work-related information is protected and secured according to Statistics Canada Security Classification Standards, whether employees are working from Statistics Canada buildings or other secure locations such as their private residence.