Canada’s Health Agency Collected Data From 33 Million Cellphones to Inform Pandemic Policies

A woman speaks on her cellphone on a sidewalk in downtown Ottawa on July 24, 2020. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

Canada’s federal health agency has been using cellphone data to track the anonymized movements of Canadians since the onset of the pandemic in order to inform policy and public messaging, and it intends to continue the practice after the COVID-19 crisis is over.

Reported by Blacklock’s on Dec. 21, the news was confirmed by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) in an emailed statement to The Epoch Times.