Inside Track
Canada Admits It Tracked 33 Million Phones Amid Lockdown
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has now admitted that it accessed 33 million mobile devices (in a country of 38 million people) to monitor citizens’ movement amid the lockdown.
“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 PHAC spokesperson told the National Post December 24, 2021.
PHAC said it used the data to determine the effectiveness of public lockdown protocols and allow the agency to “understand possible links between movement of populations within Canada and spread of COVID-19.”
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