Conservatives Ask Privacy Czar to Probe Pandemic Related Use of Mobile Location Data

Conservatives Ask Privacy Czar to Probe Pandemic Related Use of Mobile Location Data
Conservative MP John Brassard is in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept. 20, 2018. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
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OTTAWA—A Conservative MP is asking Canada’s privacy commissioner to investigate federal reliance on data from mobile devices to understand travel patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a letter to privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien, Tory MP John Brassard accuses the Public Health Agency of Canada of secretly using the pandemic to violate the privacy of Canadians.