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The federal government of Canada has admitted to secretly monitoring the movements of the country’s population during the isolation of COVID-19 following the relocations of some 33 million mobile phones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The Canada Public Health Agency acknowledged this week that it had followed population movements to calculate “the public response to the isolation and closure measures,” the network report said.Blacklock’s Reporter<\/a>‘, who first reported the news.<\/p>\n The total population of the country is 38 million, according to the agency ‘Statistics Canada<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n “Evidence comes from many sources, from many parts of the world, to what is known as the drastic increase in government surveillance – in the post-9\/11 era – that has already been left far behind by the massive surveillance of the pandemic,” writes David Lyon , author of Pandemic Surveillance and former Professor of Government Oversight Studies at the University of Ontario, for the National Post agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n The location and movement data came from Canadian telecom giant Telus and were argued to be “understanding the possible links between population movement within Canada and the spread of COVID-19,” a spokesman told the daily.<\/p>\n Critics say such uncontrolled surveillance runs counter to the principles of democracy, rights and personal dignity.<\/p>\n Public health organizations say they will continue to monitor population movements for the “next five years” to control “other infectious diseases, chronic diseases or mental health,” said the unnamed representative.<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n top channel
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