Tue Oct 26, 2021 – 1:59 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A former Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner has spoken out against “outrageous … abhorrent” worldwide vaccine passport mandates, warning that the sensitive information gathered in such systems is creating a “global digital infrastructure for surveillance.”
Privacy expert Dr. Ann Cavoukian, now an executive director at Toronto’s Privacy By Design Centre of Excellence, said that individuals using the vaccine passports ought to be concerned about the level of intrusion into the private lives of citizens that is introduced by the system, since alongside health information vaccine passports often include location tracking and personal identification documentation.
The Epoch Times reported Cavoukian as revealing that governments will be able to collect “geolocation data associated with where you were, and at what time” with the vaccine passport system. The data tracking will also give them the ability to monitor “who you were with.”
Cavoukian, a senior fellow at the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre at Ryerson University, argued that worldwide personal information collection through such systems will create a “global digital infrastructure of surveillance.”
Cavoukian explained that private health information should remain “between your doctor and yourself,” according to Ottawa-based newsroom
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