{"id":61175,"date":"2021-12-30T06:35:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61175"},"modified":"2021-12-30T06:35:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:35:26","slug":"govt-cant-be-trusted-with-cellphone-tracking-amid-pandemic-former-ontario-privacy-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61175","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t Can\u2019t Be Trusted With Cellphone Tracking Amid Pandemic: Former Ontario Privacy Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A cell tower in rural Ontario in a file photo. (The Canadian Press\/Sean Kilpatrick)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Gov\u2019t Can\u2019t Be Trusted With Cellphone Tracking Amid Pandemic: Former Ontario Privacy Commissioner<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Ontario\u2019s former privacy commissioner is sounding the alarm about the government\u2019s tracking of cellphone data to inform policy, after it was revealed recently that a federal agency has been analyzing the movements of Canadians since the onset of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt concerns me enormously that this would enable the government to collect more and more information,\u201d Ann Cavoukian told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not want to [see] a trend where the government is consistently doing this and starting now. You can\u2019t trust the government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cavoukian, who served as Ontario\u2019s privacy commissioner from 1997 to 2014, is founder of the advocacy group Global Privacy & Security by Design and heads the Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence at Ryerson University.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn March 2020, [Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau said that tracking cellphone users was not being considered. Well, they did it, PHAC\u2019s been doing it, and they want to do it even more,\u201d Cavoukian said.<\/p>\n

First reported by Blacklock\u2019s Reporter on Dec. 21, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has since confirmed that it has been using cellphone data to conduct analysis of Canadians\u2019 anonymized movements in the context of the pandemic, and that it plans on expanding the program to other health issues and continuing it until 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Officials] say \u2018as soon as the emergency is over, we\u2019re going to return to privacy.\u2019 They don\u2019t. The privacy invasive measures that are introduced during emergencies, pandemics, etc., often continue well after the emergency is over,\u201d said Cavoukian.<\/p>\n

She believes PHAC wanted to \u201ckeep this under wraps \u2026 because they know people do not want to have their mobile devices tracked.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A cell tower in rural Ontario in a file photo. (The Canadian Press\/Sean Kilpatrick) Gov\u2019t Can\u2019t Be Trusted With Cellphone Tracking Amid Pandemic: Former Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ontario\u2019s former privacy commissioner is sounding the alarm about the government\u2019s tracking of cellphone data to inform policy, after it was revealed recently that a federal agency has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10581,379,5570,32356,1378,32357,652,16350],"class_list":["post-61175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cellphone-tracking","tag-government","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-noe-chartier","tag-ontario","tag-ontario-privacy-commissioner","tag-privacy","tag-the-epoch-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61176,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61175\/revisions\/61176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}