Government Services Minister Stuart Robert said there would there will be no surveillance involved with the app, which is to be ready within weeks.

After Alberta's premier brought up the possibility of using smartphone apps to enforce quarantine orders, a former privacy commissioner and developer weigh in on balancing privacy and public health.

In the early days of the outbreak, "Taiwan leveraged its national health insurance database and integrated it with its immigration and customs database to begin the creation of big data for analytics;"