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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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