this was sent as an email to me a while back .
"You may have recently received, or will shortly receive, a mailing from 407 ETR (407 International Inc.) accompanying your monthly bill. This mailing included with your bill, is titled Your Personal Information.
It is one of the most important official notification you will ever receive. You must consider the consequences of its contents.
DO NOT DISREGARD IT LIGHTLY.
The document speaks to 407's commitment to protecting your privacy and security of your personal information, including your name, home address, phone number, banking information, credit card #, credit information, vehicle license and make, drivers license #, and travel frequency and destination.
On the information side of the document it informs you that;
"407 ETR may collect, use, disclose, and retain your personal information in order to collect or enforce payment.......... for traffic planning, revenue management and to promote the use of Highway 407.
407 ETR may collect your personal information directly from you or from others......."
Consider that you are being officially informed that 407ETR will be obtaining your personal information of the kind listed above, plus other information, from any and all sources, and has the stated right to disclose that information at their sole discretion, for purposes including "revenue management", an all encompassing phrase that could include selling your personal information for revenue generation and "management" of their profit margins.
With this you will no longer be able to control who has your banking, credit card information, credit status, or who has access to your personal travel profile when you and other drivers in your household are most likely out. Sophisticated crime syndicates will appreciate this data and will be able to share this information through fronted "legitimate" companies, or cohorts placed in truly legitimate companies. It could also have far reaching implications such as employment opportunities, when employers subscribe to data bases to find out if current or potential employees have credit difficulties, or if you are a single female parent, by sharing government information. Companies or individuals purporting to be private companies, for a small fee can identify where your credit card is used, including private clubs, book & video stores, etc. access your medical records, which could deny you insurance coverage, or disqualify you from coverage, and generally find out more about yourself than even your spouse may even know.
This is not difficult nor time consuming to do, with powerful search engines and internet access.
407 ETR implies your agreement to have them access and share all records without stated limitations, by simply stating on the document;
" By using Highway 407 on or after December 26, 2003, you consent to the use, retention and disclosure as described, of your personal information collected by 407 ETR before that date." ......
You can withdraw your consent by giving 407 ETR notice in writing, however,
.....your withdrawal of consent still allows 407 ETR to use and disclose your personal information.......... as a result of your prior or continuing use of Highway 407."
Simply put, by using highway 407 from December 26, 2003 you will be forfeiting your right to determine who can obtain and use your personal information, and 407 ETR will have assumed that right to use, assign, sell, share, or transfer, all personal information, and to whichever party they deem as being able to contribute to their "revenue management", and best of all no liability is assumed.
You should be aware that by choosing to use 407 ETR you will be exposed to identity theft and all that it entails as well as banking fraud. In post 911 you should be very concerned.
Incidentally, if you choose NOT TO USE 407 ETR, you will be saving yourself rates that have risen six times in 52 months, and increased 30 and 203 % depending on the time of day.- STAR NEWSPAPER, D. Brazao, A3, Jan. 3, 2003.
407 ETR is a subsidiary of 407 International Inc. and is owned by Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte (co-owned by Grupo Ferrovial and Australian-headquartered Macquarie Infrastructure Group) and Canadian-based SNC-Lavalin.
Web Site: www.407etr.com
This piece is written by Brian Abdool. I encourage you to protest the action of 407 ETR with their Customer Service Division webmaster@407etr.com , your City Councilor, the Minister of Transportation, the Honorable Harinder Takhar htakhar.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org and to alert everyone on your mailing list."
