Posted on 12/26/2021 10:58:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Canada’s federal government admitted to secretly surveilling its population’s movements during the COVID-19 lockdown by tracking 33 million phones.
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) clandestinely tracked the devices to assess “the public’s responsiveness during lockdown measures,” the agency acknowledged last week, according to Blacklock’s Reporter, which first reported the disclosure.
Canada’s entire population totals 38 million, according to Statistics Canada.
“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,” David Lyon, author of “Pandemic Surveillance” and the former director of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University in Ontario, told the National Post.
According to an unnamed rep, PHAC will continue the tracking for at least five more years.Shutterstock / Dmitrii_Smirnov
The PHAC bought location and movement data from Canadian telecom giant Telus to “understand possible links between the movement of populations within Canada and the spread of COVID-19,” an agency spokesperson said, according to the paper.
The public health organization plans to continue tracking population movement for at least the next five years to control “other infectious diseases, chronic disease prevention and mental health,” the unnamed rep said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Government sucks
I bet they did that here too.
I’ll bet us government or states did to.
In some bizarro alternative universe, government agents would be charged with criminal violations of privacy laws for doing things like this.
</sarc>
LET'S GO BRANDONTRUE-DOLT!
Burner phone.
Several times upon my return trip across the Delaware from NJ, I’ve gotten COVID alerts on my phone from the NJ Health Dept.
Snowden provided plenty of warnings about what your phone was sharing, and that was years ago - the technology has only gotten better.
Such a beautiful country with so many really nice people...
but some of these reports from Canada sound as bad or worse than what is going down in NY and Californication
(also the anti-Christian church business in Alberta?)
we only get partial reports, admittedly, but they are definitely worrisome (same with Australia and Israel and even UK today)... politicians talking like dictators
Faraday bag.
Or just leave the darn thing at home.
A Canadian, the late Leonard Cohen in Everybody Knows (1988):
And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it’s moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there’s gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows
Gov. won’t be tracking my phone, since I don’t own one. Neither cell nor land line.
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]
RE: Gov. won’t be tracking my phone, since I don’t own one. Neither cell nor land line.
Don’t you ever need to call anyone? But since you’re using a computer, they can track you just the same.
Good thing that no iphones were tracked..... you know because they are secure.
Which means leave your cell at home when going out stupid
In other words the entire population of Canada.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.