33 million phones tracked during lockdown
Canada, in the collective unconscious, looks a bit like a perfect country. The people are polite, kind and there is no violence. Perhaps the gutters even smell of violet and the dogs bow to you when you pass them in the street. So we hear more and more people announcing, with stars in their eyes, that they dream of moving there because the living conditions seem incredible. Well, this is not to shower the enthusiasm of some, but, already, know that it is more than cold. In addition, it would appear that the government is not that clear in its way of managing the health crisis.
Stalking mania
This is indeed what we are learning today through our colleagues from Blacklock’s Reporter. The Canadian Public Health Agency has admitted have monitored the movements of more than 33 million telephone devices during containment. The population of Canada being 38 million and if we take away the children, that is to say that almost everyone has been followed by the Federals. To justify this stalking, the agency confided that they had used the towers of cellular networks to ” understand the reactivity of the public during containment measures “. Mark Johnson, his spokesperson, returned to the why and how:
Due to the urgency of the pandemic, the Agency collected and used mobility data such as cell tower location data throughout the COVID-19 response. It was to help understand the possible links between population movements in Canada and COVID.
Except that the thing is done behind the backs of citizens, far from suspecting that their actions could be analyzed. If we can understand on the merits that these data can help to understand how the epidemic can spread, the form shivers down the spine.
33 million cell phones secretly tracked in Canada during lockdowns against Covid19 https://t.co/7hdciC4Cpf
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5 more years!
The Canadian Public Health Agency has indeed bought location and movement data from Telus, one of the country’s telecommunications giants. Why disclose things today? ” By transparency »He was announced to stick once again to this face of a country from every angle that Canada wants to give itself. Isn’t it mainly because the government service should officially continue to track population movements for the next 5 years ? The reason for all this according to Mark Johnson: to control other infectious diseases, chronic disease prevention and mental health.
To reassure everyone, the Agency has confirmed that people’s identities were not disclosed in the data and that they cannot ” be used to track or monitor individuals “. Very good, but the real question which remains unanswered since all the tools seem to allow it, is ” Until when ? “. Because if this data exists, it can also be hacked. Government agencies often use the terrorism or child crime argument to explain to the brave citizens who “have nothing to hide” that it is a knife blow to their freedom, but that it is for a good cause. Now we are waving the Covid rag to track down a whole population.
