Canada secretly tracked 33 million phones during COVID-19 lockdown: report

New York Post ^ | 12/25/2021 | Conor Skelding

[The Louiswu]

Government sucks

[Sarcazmo]

I bet they did that here too.

[cableguymn]

I’ll bet us government or states did to.

[coloradan]

In some bizarro alternative universe, government agents would be charged with criminal violations of privacy laws for doing things like this.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Of course they are tracking people! Purely for health purposes? Sure, I believe that! Everything Prime Mistake True-dolt, or GouvFedCan states MUST be the truth! I am also in the market for a slightly used bridge, that I can buy cheap and charge tolls. Brooklyn would be a good location.

</sarc>

LET'S GO BRANDONTRUE-DOLT!

[Scarlett156]

Burner phone.

[P.O.E.]

Several times upon my return trip across the Delaware from NJ, I’ve gotten COVID alerts on my phone from the NJ Health Dept.

[kearnyirish2]

Snowden provided plenty of warnings about what your phone was sharing, and that was years ago - the technology has only gotten better.

[faithhopecharity]

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

[mewzilla]

Faraday bag.

Or just leave the darn thing at home.

[frank ballenger]

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

[Graybeard58]

Gov. won’t be tracking my phone, since I don’t own one. Neither cell nor land line.

[Grampa Dave]

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]

[SeekAndFind]

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.

[minnesota_bound]

Good thing that no iphones were tracked..... you know because they are secure.

[ronnie raygun]

Which means leave your cell at home when going out stupid

[Georgia Girl 2]

In other words the entire population of Canada.