The Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) secretive mass surveillance program included tracking family gatherings, visits to the grocery store and other travels of millions of Canadians.
Officials had access to detailed information about people’s movements after scooping up data from 33 million mobile devices across Canada.
Documents submitted to the Commons ethics committee reveal that the data analysis company BlueDot provided PHAC with anonymized reports so that public health officials could track travel patterns of Canadians.
The program has been temporarily suspended as of February as committee members investigate whether the federal government violated Canadians’ privacy rights.
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