Public Health Admits it Tracked 33 million Mobile Devices

[Badenoch]

I can't get too worked up about this. Google tracks my phone and once a month sends me a report of where I've been. If the potential of a government agency doing it bothers you all that much don't carry a phone.

[GloHole]

Call them up and tell em what you really think. https://buyandsell.gc.ca/procurement...IP38eSK1Bq7kRk

[MikePal]

It's far more sinister if you look at the bigger picture of how the tracking can and is being used in other countries.

I posted a thread on this a while back, talks about what China is doing with this capability and their goals for it's use.

As China encourages people to return to work despite the coronavirus outbreak, it has begun a bold mass experiment in using data to regulate citizens’ lives — by requiring them to use software on their smartphones that dictates whether they should be quarantined or allowed into subways, malls and other public spaces.

But a New York Times analysis of the software’s code found that the system does more than decide in real time whether someone poses a contagion risk. It also appears to share information with the police, setting a template for new forms of automated social control that could persist long after the epidemic subsides.

https://www.oodmag.com/community/sho...tracking-tools

[trimmer21]

Off often is not good enough. GPS tracker can still be followed when off. Need to remove the battery or better yet just get rid of the damn thing.

So,the moral of the story is if you might be somewhere you likely shouldn't be ,don't even take your phone?

[MikePal]

So,the moral of the story is if you might be somewhere you likely shouldn't be ,don't even take your phone?

From what I read on the Big Game forum...a lot of guys are broadcasting to someone the GPS co-cords to their secret hunting spots

[canadaman30]

I can't get too worked up about this. Google tracks my phone and once a month sends me a report of where I've been. If the potential of a government agency doing it bothers you all that much don't carry a phone.

The privacy act is law. Laws are to be followed by all, not just some. Those who break laws should be held accountable, government agencies included.

[canadaman30]

From what I read on the Big Game forum...a lot of guys are broadcasting to someone their GPS co-cords to their secret hunting spots

Beware..lol

[dean.f]

So,the moral of the story is if you might be somewhere you likely shouldn't be ,don't even take your phone?

Words to live by.

[trimmer21]

The privacy act is law. Laws are to be followed by all, not just some. Those who break laws should be held accountable, government agencies included.

LOL Yeah,like that would ever happen.

[newbiehunter]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politi...erns-1.5773379


The committee motion was unanimously backed by MPs on the committee from all parties, including Liberals. But on Tuesday, when the motion came before the whole House, the Liberals voted against it.

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