Advocates and legal experts are raising concerns about potential privacy violations in the emergency orders the Ontario government has implemented to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nova Scotia independent senator Colin Deacon wants to see a national contact tracing app put in place as another tool to help public health officials to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Competition Bureau said Facebook gave the false impression that its privacy settings would give users control over who could see and access their personal information.

CSIS expresses particular concern about defining personal information in the law in an overly broad way, potentially making the intelligence service's job more difficult.

Investigators have struggled to find around 2,000 people wanted for testing, an effort complicated by public criticism of the clubgoers and concerns about discrimination against the LGBTQ community.

Ronald Kruzeniski’s concern is whether personal information is being recorded at checkpoints and how the province would roll out a contact-tracing phone app.

While location-tracking technology is nothing new, privacy and ethics experts have been wary about its use on such a large scale — especially by governments.

Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says the health crisis calls for some flexibility when it comes to the application of privacy laws.

Edmonton Police Chief Dale McFee said Tuesday he is pleased to hear Alberta's health minister has signed a ministerial order allowing law enforcement agencies to access information about citizens' COVID-19 status in cases where officers have been spat or coughed on by someone claiming to have the disease.

In an interview on The West Block, Daniel Therrien said he agrees with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that such an app must be voluntary, but other criteria must also be met.