The Public Health Organization of Canada (Public Health Agency of Canada - PHAC) “Gained access to location data from 33 million mobile devicesto monitor the movement of people during the lockdown ".
Όas reported by National Post
Ο PHAC used location data to evaluate the effectiveness of lockdown measures and to "understand potential links between population movement within Canada and the spread of COVID-19».
In March, the Agency commissioned the program "Telus Data For Good"The provision of" unidentified (de-identified) and aggregate data of traffic trends in Canada ”. The contract expired in October and PHAC no longer has access to location data, the agency spokesman said.
Ο PHAC plans to monitor population movement for the next five years, including addressing other public health issues, such as "other infectious diseases, prevention of chronic diseases and mental health».
Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online National Post on the long-term effects of the program. «I think the Canadian public will learn about many more such unauthorized surveillance initiatives before and after the pandemic.", Said in an email o David Lyon, author of Pandemic Surveillance and its former director Surveillance Studies Center at Queen's University.
The increased use of surveillance technology during the pandemic COVID-19 has created a new regularity in the name of security, said David Lyon.
Evidence comes from many sources, from countries around the world, that what was seen as a huge increase in surveillance - after 11/XNUMX - has now been surpassed compared to pandemic surveillance.
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