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OTTAWA — Opposition MPs want the House of Commons ethics committee to investigate the Public Health Agency of Canada's decision to collect data from millions of mobile phones to understand travel patterns during the COVID-pandemic.
Tory MP John Brassard says the pandemic is being used as an excuse to undermine the privacy of Canadians who were unaware a government agency has been collecting cellphone data. Brassard says it is"extremely alarming" that a government body would use the pandemic as an excuse to secretly collect the mobile data of Canadians without telling them.A request for proposals issued Dec. 16 wants access to nationwide cell tower-based location data, stripped of personal identifiers, between Jan. 1, 2019 and May 31, 2023.
Last week, Brassard wrote to Daniel Therrien, the Privacy Commissioner, and asked him to examine the matter. On Monday he wrote to Conservative MP Pat Kelly, who chairs the Commons Privacy committee, to ask for an emergency meeting.
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