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This past Monday, Toronto Mayor Tory announced at a virtual TechTO meetup that the government has been receiving location data from wireless carriers and telecommunication companies in the area to show where people are still congregating and flouting social distancing \u2013 The Logic reports. Tory stated:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had \u2026 the cellphone companies give us all the data on the pinging off their network on the weekend so we could see, \u2018Where were people still congregating?\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That an arm of the Canadian government has even considered using this pandemic as a way to broaden their surveillance apparatus is heinous to say the least. That there are wireless carriers that are willing to provide this \u201cheat map\u201d to the Canadian government in contravention of civil liberties laws is also heinous but another discussion for another time. It\u2019s worth noting that Toronto Mayor John Tory is a former CEO of Rogers, the second largest cellular network in Canada.<\/p>\n

Michael Bryant, the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Civil Liberties, rightfully lambasted Mayor Tory for even considering tracking citizens in this way. Bryant described the actions as:<\/p>\n

\u201casking companies potentially to breach their contracts and break the law. That\u2019s not what\u2019s supposed to happen ever, and actually, especially during an emergency, unless there is explicit legal authority to do this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just so we\u2019re clear: The government does not have explicit legal authority to do so, and the Toronto city government was mum about whether they had even consulted the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario before requesting this gigantic overstep of power. Toronto is currently under a 30 day state of emergency where the mayor can act without consulting city council \u2013 and this is exactly the type of legal violations that citizens need to be looking out for during states of emergency.<\/p>\n

The City of Ottawa is also considering using COVID-19 as an excuse to request location data<\/h2>\n

The City of Toronto isn\u2019t the only Canadian city that wants location data on citizens under the guise of aiding the pandemic response. Vera Estes, the Ottawa city medical officer of health told the Ottawa Citizen<\/a> that city officials are also considering asking wireless data providers for \u201caggregated data, potentially from electronic sources.\u201d The good news is that Ottawa doesn\u2019t seem to have pulled the trigger on this invasion of privacy the way that Toronto has \u2013 and it\u2019s still possible for Ottawan citizens to make their voices heard and demand that location tracking be taken off the table \u2013 though their voices may be roundly ignored.<\/p>\n

Those seeking to congregate can just leave their phones at home but the government won\u2019t just leave this location tracking power be after the pandemic is over<\/h2>\n

The fine line between public government and private companies that have a terms of service with their users and are supposed to defend user\u2019s privacy from warrantless incursions into their private movements has been shattered by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are seeing this fine line being broken all around the world by different governments and it\u2019s not untoward to imagine the dystopian future that is coming.<\/p>\n

The silver lining of governments going to telecommunications companies and demanding access to \u201canonymized\u201d location data sets is that people are finally waking up to the fact that carrying a phone around in your pocket is literally carrying a government tracking device akin to an ankle bracelet. Since people are aware of that \u2013 those seeking to congregate in contravention of social distancing guidances will simply leave their phones at home \u2013 which means the original intent of siphoning up location data to prevent congregations and the spread of disease won\u2019t be effective \u2013 instead, the government will have had a taste of ubiquitous domestic location tracking and they\u2019ll be damned if they will give it up.<\/p>\n

Featured image by Bruce Reeves<\/a> shared via CC By 2.0 License<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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