In its long-awaited privacy review of ABTraceTogether, Alberta’s COVID-19 contact tracing app, the provincial privacy watchdog has recommended that Alberta Health update its description of the app in online stores, further encrypt “data at rest” in the app, and consult with provincial privacy authorities around the decommissioning of the app.
While it believes the CRTC's existing definition of "customer confidential information" is broad enough to protect the use of the IP addresses and phone numbers of those using the federal COVID-19...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that in developing the federal government's new voluntary app to trace exposure to the COVID-19 virus, it consulted the Office of The Privacy Commissioner,...
Despite the extraordinary desire to stop the spread of COVID-19, there is still no justification for mass unwarranted surveillance of identifiable people, according to a joint statement of principles...
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