Tag: Canada

Ethics committee calls on PHAC to halt cellphone data collection to study COVID-19 patterns
The House of Commons ethics committee has called for a halt to the Public Health Agency of Canada‘s plans to collect data from millions of mobile phones as a way to understand travel patterns during …

Canada’s public health agency admits it tracked 33 million mobile devices during lockdown
The Public Health Agency of Canada accessed data such as cell-tower location to monitor people’s activity during lockdown, it said