Ethics Committee Says Government Must Tell Canadians It’s Tracking Their Movements

A woman looks down at her cell phone while walking though downtown Toronto, on June 12, 2018. The Canadian Press/Chris Young

A House of Commons committee says the federal government needs to tell Canadians if it’s collecting data about their movements, and allow them to opt out of that collection.

Those are some of the recommendations made by the ethics committee, which started looking into the issue back in January after public outcry about the federal health agency’s secret collection of data from cell providers during the COVID-19 pandemic.