Posted on 12/26/2021 3:08:00 PM PST by cutty
The Public Health Agency of Canada accessed data such as cell-tower location to monitor people’s activity during lockdown, it said...
The Public Health Agency of Canada accessed location data from 33 million mobile devices to monitor people’s movement during lockdown, the agency revealed this week.
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. The program’s existence was first brought to wider attention by Blacklock’s Reporter.
PHAC used the location data to evaluate the effectiveness of public lockdown measures and allow the Agency to “understand possible links between movement of populations within Canada and spread of COVID-19,” the spokesperson said.
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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The pandemic has created opportunities for a massive surveillance surge on many levels—not only for public health, but also for monitoring those working, shopping and learning from home.”
“Evidence is coming in from many sources, from countries around the world, that what was seen as a huge surveillance surge—post 9/11—is now completely upstaged by pandemic surveillance,”
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I often go out without my phone.
And I have no doubt it was done here in the States too.
that is essentially every adult with a cell phone in the country.
They were just testing the technology. What they really want is the ability to track the folks in case they ever try something like Americans did on Jan 6.
This is a method to implement tyranny through medical emergency. This is no longer a conspiracy theory.
One lucky solar flare or EM pulse and it’ll be 1955 again. Our New Overlords can deliver newspapers or run a fruit stand for a living. Heh.
In March, the Agency awarded a contract to the Telus Data For Good...
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The name of every government agency, bill, or NGO always has a meaning the exact opposite of its title.
Did Canada do this or did the US and/or the UK do the tracking and monitoring as per our 5 Eyes Agreement.
Where, we spy er monitor their citizens, and they spy er monitor our citizens. Then they/we report to their spy masters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
In 2013, Canadian federal judge Richard Mosley strongly rebuked the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) for outsourcing its surveillance of Canadians to overseas partner agencies.
A 51-page ruling says that the CSIS and other Canadian federal agencies are illegally enlisting US and British allies in global surveillance dragnets, while keeping domestic federal courts in the dark.[58][59][60]
I know for a fact that “contact tracing” alert stuff didn’t work. I purposely turned it on on my work phone, our kid had a doctor confirmed case, and...nothing, no alert.
1984
Aw, c’mon man! ‘FedGouvCan’ is as trustworthy ans Justin True-dolt, or XiJinBiden, or the Deep State! Nothing to see here folks, just move along!
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Comrade Doctor Tam and Prime Mistake True-dolt, can both just PHAC off!
Totalitarian government is the norm throughout history. But that does not mean we have to accept it.
A bit over a year ago, I was supposed to be in a quarantine. I have a truckdriver buddy and was thinking of giving him my phone so that he could have it in the cab with him on his next cross country run... that would also have gone over the Canada-U.S. border. Somehow, it didn’t happen but I think it would have been quite interesting to see what would have happened.
Just a little different take on what Simon Weckert did on an empty street in Berlin when he pulled a small wagon with 99 smartphones in it and created his very own traffic jam....
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