Coronavirus: Could Alberta use smartphone apps to track patients, enforce quarantine?

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After Alberta's premier brought up the possibility of using smartphone apps to enforce quarantine orders, a former privacy commissioner and developer weigh in on balancing privacy and public health.

peak and recovery could look like. Jason Kenney also spoke about his government’s plans to roll out its “Relaunch Strategy” once COVID-19 peaks in the province.In addition to “an aggressive system of mass testing,” completing as many as 20,000 tests a day, Kenney spoke about tracking cases, stronger screening and quarantining.

“As we’ve said from the start of this public health emergency, privacy laws still apply but are not a barrier to appropriate information sharing,” OIPC communications manager Scott Sibbald wrote in an email to Global News.“The main focus right now is — and should be — public health, but there are several unknowns about how an app would be deployed and what laws would be engaged by doing so.

 

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Where's those conservative morons who were claiming Trudeau and the Liberals were overstepping their boundaries? Looks like the shoe is on the other foot.

How about a 'hard no' on that one

FUCK THAT! Seems Global News is looking to promoting the Globalist Agenda.

Dont fuckin do it

The fact that ideas like this are being mentioned is terrifying.

burnerphone 😉

That’s a hard nooo !

Let me put it this way: Just fucking try it. In case you were wondering why our poolboy PM wants to take your guns and turn citizens into criminals with the stroke of a pen: THIS. IS. IT.

How till leaving home without your cell phone will be illegal?

No

Just stop already with the BS ... like serious. Global. FO

This is against their human rights.

Where’s Kenny?

Fark Off

BillTufts overmydeadbody colddayinh jkenney Albertans will not stand for the CCP’s Huawei 5G tracking app allowing communist take-over of our free lives

Id burn my phone first

They probably have been, haven’t you noticed that your phones ring has a barely audible echo lately 🤨

Absolutely not!

FO.

All in the same app that we can make micro voting a reality from so we can vote on things like Trudeau giving billions of dollars away to his Muslim friends?

Of course they could, but is that the society we want to create.

And when i go out I leave my phone at home?

Does it need to be enforced? They can’t be that ignorant, can they?

*Should

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