{"id":5848,"date":"2017-08-02T07:34:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T14:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2020-08-06T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T11:04:00","slug":"canada-incentivizes-mass-surveillance-mobile-app-called-carrot-rewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/canada-incentivizes-mass-surveillance-mobile-app-called-carrot-rewards\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada incentivizes mass surveillance with a mobile app called Carrot Rewards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian government is using carrots to lure in new helpers in its quest for mass surveillance powers. A new app called Carrot Rewards is a behavioral modification mobile app that was originally created to reward users with redeemable points for taking healthy actions. Carrot Reward\u2019s founder Andreas Souvaliotis explained to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/health\/ontario-gives-1-5m-to-app-that-rewards-healthy-behaviour-1.3492881\">CTV<\/a>\u00a0that he had originally started the company to focus on health but quickly realized, through government partnerships, that his app would also be effective in \u201cmodifying behavior in other areas as well.\u201d Now, Carrot Rewards has raised over $1.5 million from several local Canadian governments and have rolled out the app to hundreds of thousands of users. According to a July 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/200000-ontarians-already-actively-using-new-carrot-rewards-wellness-app-632914553.html\">press release<\/a>, more than 1% of the Canadian population already has this app downloaded \u2013 including over 200k Ontarians.<\/p>\n<h2>Would you give up your privacy for a carrot?<\/h2>\n<p>Per Carrot\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/AdA2m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">privacy policy<\/a>, the app (and therefore its government partners) have permission to \u201caccess and collect information from your mobile device, including but not limited to, geo-location data, accelerometer\/gyroscope data, your mobile device\u2019s camera, microphone, contacts, calendar and Bluetooth connectivity in order to operate additional functionalities of the Services.\u201d The Foundation for Economic Education (<a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/creepy-canadian-app-gives-citizens-points-for-making-government-approved-choices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FEE<\/a>) called the app, \u201ccreepy.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>While Canada offers only carrots, other countries offer sticks, too<\/h2>\n<p>Another question that begs to be asked is this: What is the stick in this carrot and stick approach? In China, where a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/in-china-your-credit-score-is-now-affected-by-your-political-opinions-and-your-friends-political-opinions\/\">social credit score<\/a> is being used to monitor people, a higher score for doing government-approved actions is used as a carrot while a lower score for doing government-disproved actions is used as a stick. Lower scores can result in lowered internet connection speeds from the state-run ISPs or a host of other government sanctioned penalties, for instance. While the Canadian government hasn\u2019t yet funded an app called \u201cStick Enforcement,\u201d that could be in the stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian government is using carrots to lure in new helpers in its quest for mass surveillance powers. A new app called Carrot Rewards is a behavioral modification mobile app that was originally created to reward users with redeemable points for taking healthy actions. Carrot Reward\u2019s founder Andreas Souvaliotis explained to the CTV\u00a0that he had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/canada-incentivizes-mass-surveillance-mobile-app-called-carrot-rewards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Canada incentivizes mass surveillance with a mobile app called Carrot Rewards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,130,1941],"tags":[429],"class_list":["post-5848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-governments","category-surveillance","tag-canada"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Canada incentivizes mass surveillance with a mobile app called Carrot Rewards<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Canadian government is using carrots to lure in new helpers in its quest for mass surveillance powers. 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