The House committee responsible for overseeing privacy issues unanimously voted Thursday to conduct a study of the federal health agency’s mobility analysis program, which relies on data obtained from cellphones. At the onset of the special meeting of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy, and Ethics, Conservative MP and critic for ethics John Brassard presented the initial motion on the study, which will require the testimony of the health minister and the chief public health officer, and members of the committee will also submit a list of witnesses. “Mr. Chair, it becomes increasingly concerning that government is seemingly using this pandemic as a means and a cause for massive overreach into the privacy rights of Canadians,” said Brassard. “And as parliamentarians, it’s incumbent upon us to make sure that we protect those rights, that there is proper scrutiny and oversight, not just the privacy rights, but the constitutional …