OTTAWA—Statistics Canada is planning to move its information holdings to the digital cloud — a shift the national number-crunching agency acknowledges will prompt questions about the protection of sensitive data. Statistics Canada sees several benefits including affordable access to the latest technologies, additional processing power and storage, and more timely provision of data to the public and researchers. But the statistics agency also realizes some rumbling could emerge from the cloud. Smith had reservations about the move of agency data to Shared Services Canada facilities. “Statistics Canada will only migrate protected information once our systems have been deemed secure for cloud services appropriate for sensitive information, as per Government of Canada procedures and processes,” he said in a written response to questions.

Source: thestar January 12, 2020 10:52 UTC