Besides data from carrier Telus, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has been relying on data ultimately sourced from companies which collect data through smartphone apps to get anonymized movement records of Canadians, The Epoch Times has learned. It was revealed in December that PHAC has been conducting mobility analysis of Canadians, in part to inform pandemic policies, public messaging and assess the effectiveness of lockdowns. PHAC said it did not and will not track individual Canadians, but rather looks at anonymized trends. The Epoch Times subsequently reported that PHAC’s data was sourced from Telus’ Data for Good program and Canada’s Communications Research Centre (CRC). The CRC now tells The Epoch Times that it procures its cellphone data from commercial vendors of crowd-sourced information that collect data through smartphone apps to collect anonymized movement records of Canadians. CRC is obtaining data from Tutela, a company that specializes in measuring …
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