In-reply-to » 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:

@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 😢

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