Hi All...

*Canada Secretly Tracked 33MN Phones since Covid Outbreak*

Canada?s Public Health Agency (PHAC) has admitted to covertly tracking 33 million devices during the pandemic to assess "the public?s responsiveness during lockdown measures" (National Post citing Blocklock?s Reporter).

A contract awarded to Telus' Data For Good program expired in October, but for months it had helped garner "de-identified and aggregated" analysis. However, a PHAC spox has confirmed plans to continue tracking the population for up to FIVE YEARS.

Pandemic Surveillance author David Lyon believes "the Canadian public will find out about many other such unauthorized surveillance initiatives before the pandemic is over - and afterwards."

Ciao!
/|ug (https://t.me/aabolins)

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Hi August,

On 2021-12-27 17:55:31, you wrote to All:

*Canada Secretly Tracked 33MN Phones since Covid Outbreak*

Canada?s Public Health Agency (PHAC) has admitted to covertly tracking 33 million devices during the pandemic to assess "the public?s responsiveness during lockdown measures" (National Post citing Blocklock?s Reporter).

So is the director of the agency gona loose his/hers job? Heads should role! If they get away with it, it will be repeated...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello Wilfred van Velzen!

** On Monday 27.12.21 - 16:41, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

*Canada Secretly Tracked 33MN Phones since Covid Outbreak*

So is the director of the agency gona loose his/hers job? Heads should role! If they get away with it, it will be repeated...

Not gonna happen.. 'cuz they justify it the action like this:

"Due to the urgency of the pandemic, (PHAC) collected and used
mobility data, such as cell-tower location data, throughout the
COVID-19 response," a spokesperson told National Post.

"In March, the Agency awarded a contract to the Telus Data For
Good program to provide "de-identified and aggregated data" of
movement trends in Canada. The contract expired in October, and
PHAC no longer has access to the location data, the
spokesperson said."

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On 29.12.2021 4.18, August Abolins wrote:

AA>> *Canada Secretly Tracked 33MN Phones since Covid Outbreak*

WvV> So is the director of the agency gona loose his/hers job? Heads should
WvV> role! If they get away with it, it will be repeated...

Not gonna happen.. 'cuz they justify it the action like this:

"Due to the urgency of the pandemic, (PHAC) collected and used
mobility data, such as cell-tower location data, throughout the
COVID-19 response," a spokesperson told National Post.

"In March, the Agency awarded a contract to the Telus Data For
Good program to provide "de-identified and aggregated data" of
movement trends in Canada. The contract expired in October, and
PHAC no longer has access to the location data, the
spokesperson said."

In Finland they have been using the movement data of Telia GSM network from the beginning of this covid shit, but they did not do it secretly. :)

The same anonymous data has been used before for another purposes.

'Tommi

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Hi August,

On 2021-12-28 21:18:00, you wrote to me:

*Canada Secretly Tracked 33MN Phones since Covid Outbreak*

So is the director of the agency gona loose his/hers job? Heads
should role! If they get away with it, it will be repeated...

Not gonna happen.. 'cuz they justify it the action like this:

"Due to the urgency of the pandemic, (PHAC) collected and used
mobility data, such as cell-tower location data, throughout the
COVID-19 response," a spokesperson told National Post.

That shouldn't matter if it's illegal!

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hi All...
*Canada Secretly Tracked 33MN Phones since Covid Outbreak*
Canada?s Public Health Agency (PHAC) has admitted to covertly tracking 33 million devices during the pandemic to assess "the public?s responsiveness during lockdown measures" (National Post citing Blocklock?s Reporter).
A contract awarded to Telus' Data For Good program expired in October, but for >months it had helped garner "de-identified and aggregated" analysis. However,
PHAC spox has confirmed plans to continue tracking the population for up to FIVE YEARS.
Pandemic Surveillance author David Lyon believes "the Canadian public will fin
out about many other such unauthorized surveillance initiatives before the pandemic is over - and afterwards."
Ciao!
/|ug (https://t.me/aabolins)

That's pretty scary being spied on and not being notified about it. To me, that's considered an invasion of privacy rights.

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Hello Wilfred!

** On Wednesday 29.12.21 - 11:27, you wrote to me:

*Canada Secretly Tracked 33MN Phones since Covid Outbreak*

So is the director of the agency gona loose his/hers
job? Heads should role! If they get away with it, it
will be repeated...

Not gonna happen.. 'cuz they justify it the action like
this:

"Due to the urgency of the pandemic, (PHAC) collected and
used mobility data, such as cell-tower location data,
throughout the COVID-19 response," a spokesperson told
National Post.

That shouldn't matter if it's illegal!

I suppose there are exceptions if they are just scraping the
meta data - and no specific "personal" data? Meanwhile, there
has been no further hoopla over this incident. PHAC carries
on. Spy business as usual.
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