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CRTC clarifies privacy rules for COVID tracing apps, declines to establish new regulations

News | 09/06/2022 4:49 pm EDT
The CRTC's headquarters at the Terrasses de la Chaudière complex in Gatineau, Que./ Wire Report photo.

The CRTC has clarified the rules around the collection and sharing of data from mobile wireless devices in the context of the contact tracing apps that were a major feature of public health policy in the early months of the pandemic. 

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