Mr. Roch Tassé at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

November 25th, 2010 / 12:05 p.m.

National Coordinator, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group

I believe the Privacy Commissioner has already answered that. Right now the retaining period is seven days. Within minutes, once the information is in TSA, it can be shared with a whole spectrum of agencies. By the time the TSA raises it, the FBI and 16 other agencies have this information in their databases.

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