Canada’s Public Health Agency Criticized for Tracking 33M Mobile Devices
The Public Health Agency of Canada (or PHAC) “accessed location data from 33 million mobile devices to monitor people’s movement during lockdown,” reports Canada’s National Post newspaper:

“Due to the urgency of the pandemic, PHAC collected and used mobility data, such as cell-tower location data, throughout the COVID-19 resp … ⌘ Read more

@diiven Oh my this is for real in Canada? 🤔🤦‍♂️

Yeah that happened recently. It’s bad

@dooven@twtxt.net Yeah it’s really freak’n terrible. We have something similar where I live called Check-in QLD App – I tried to find out more information from the department regarding the privacy policy and some clarifications on some ambigious statements, do you think I could find anyone to talk to?

I’m not sure if this app for us specifically tracks your Geolocation, but it would be interesting to find out if it does.

The worrying thing here is once a “power” is granted for “emergency” use, it isn’t given back 😢