Tue Oct 10, 2023 – 3:58 pm EDTTue Oct 10, 2023 – 4:59 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has invoked “commercial confidentiality” to keep secret thousands of pages of data it collected from millions of Canadians without consent via cellphones during the COVID-19 so-called pandemic, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
“We leveraged anonymized, population-aggregated, near real-time mobile device location data to estimate dynamic changes in population mobility patterns across the country,” the PHAC said in a weekly Canada Mobility Trends report.
“Data contain only a unique device ID and there is no information pertaining to users themselves,” the report stated, adding, “We have developed internal policies to limit access to these data and create guardrails to safeguard privacy.”
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the PHAC “did not elaborate” on these “internal policies,” and “[a]ll figures in the 116-page weekly report were censored.”
The PHAC was collecting data from cellphone users as part of its COVID lockdown enforcement efforts and received reports for over a year until MPs voted to suspend the practice in February 2022.
Blacklock’s explained that the data is now being withheld from Canadians under the Access To Information Act section 20.1, which
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