PHAC Mass Surveillance

• Feds rebuffed advice on COVID-19 phone data collection, privacy commissioner says

  Daniel Therrien told a House of Commons committee that he offered to review how the data was being anonymized, but the government consulted its own privacy advisers instead.

  Canada

  Feb 9, 2022
  
• MPs back motion to halt COVID-19 phone data collection over privacy concerns

  The vote by MPs follows the passing of a motion by the House of Commons ethics committee to halt the collection of data until privacy concerns are addressed.

  Canada

  Feb 8, 2022
  
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• Ethics committee calls on PHAC to halt cellphone data collection to study COVID-19 patterns

  The committee passed a motion calling on the government to suspend plans to extend the collection of cellphone location data due to privacy concerns.

  Tech

  Jan 31, 2022
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• Canada’s privacy watchdog probing health officials’ use of cellphone location data

  Commons committee will hold emergency meeting Thursday to discuss the Public Health Agency of Canada’s plans to purchase the cellphone location data of millions of citizens.

  Canada

  Jan 11, 2022