A balance of Rights?
The question in my mind is are my rights as an uninvolved Canadian citizen to control my time and who I choose to contact and provide information to, trumped by an agencies rights to to 'contact' sought persons under the Collections Act.
I'd beleive that to uphold their right over mine it means that you have to:
- See automated message delivery with the intent to compel contact as identical to calling in person (see below)
- See no differences in the agencies requirements to be certain they have the correct contact information for sought person as their contact method becomes more invasive
- Dismiss any responsibility to update their data when notices are returned
- Ignore any responsibilities to have procedures to protect the un-involved (ie:
- Take the numbers it thinks are for the sought person
- Do a look-up to get the names registered to each number
- Compare that list to the names sought at each number
- Don't use automated calling on any that don't match - at least until they've used traditional calling to confirm that the sought person uses the number.
- Agree that uninvolved people's time is at the agencies disposal, and no proceedures need to be in place to reduce the time it takes them to get off the call list when they are called in error
Do you think that repeatedly calling uninvolved people causes them forseeable harm?
What steps do you think the government should mandate agencies take to protect the uninvolved?

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