{"id":69690,"date":"2025-08-14T18:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69690\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:55:09","slug":"statistics-canada-erroneously-publishes-market-sensitive-data-early-then-takes-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69690\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics Canada erroneously publishes market-sensitive data early, then takes it down"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leaks of sensitive data are highly unusual in Canada. Statistics Canada takes a series of precautions to ensure figures remain under wraps.Sean Kilpatrick\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Statistics Canada posted market-sensitive information about June manufacturing data on its website ahead of the scheduled release date on Friday, the agency\u2019s website showed on Thursday.<\/p>\n

When Reuters asked why the data was visible, the agency took down the page immediately, indicating an error had occurred.<\/p>\n

\u201cStatistics Canada takes this incident very seriously. We are conducting a thorough review and will determine whether additional safeguards are required to prevent a recurrence,\u201d said agency spokeswoman Maryse Carriere.<\/p>\n

A page from the monthly survey of manufacturing was visible on the agency\u2019s website early Thursday. The data was also accompanied by the previous month\u2019s revision.<\/p>\n

Carriere said Statscan would proceed with plans to release the data on August 15 at 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

The office of Industry Minister Melanie Joly, which has ultimate responsibility for the agency, was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n

Leaks of sensitive data are highly unusual in Canada. Statscan takes a series of precautions to ensure figures remain under wraps.<\/p>\n

In May, 2020, the agency launched an inquiry after employment data for April was leaked to Bloomberg half an hour ahead of the scheduled release time.<\/p>\n

The probe found no evidence that the data, which was routinely shared with a small group of senior officials ahead of time, had been leaked by agency personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Leaks of sensitive data are highly unusual in Canada. Statistics Canada takes a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-69690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}