I want to add to the discussion. We have other business we need to get to today. I'm really hoping we can find a collaborative way to get a clear direction forward so we can dig into the deep questions we need to on Thursday with the minister and with the experts, but also so that we can be satisfied with the current work being done to keep public health and safety and privacy issues for Canadians working hard as we move through the pandemic. It's a delicate balance we're in right now, with tremendous responsibility.
I'd like to refer back to the comments of my colleague Mr. Brassard. I'd like to turn to the data sample all of us have in front of us, which explicitly outlines what the data sources are in terms of disaggregated, anonymized mobile devices. It is very clear actually. BlueDot explains that it leverages anonymized population aggregated near-real-time mobile device location data to estimate dynamic changes in population mobility patterns, meaning not one person but many people across the country. The data used contains only unique device ID, and there is no information pertaining to users themselves.
I think this is a very important point. They've developed internal policies, on top of the privacy standards, to limit the access to these data and to create guardrails to safeguard the privacy of users. All analytics at the device level are rolled up into population-level units, which is how they're able to track the risks in relation to spread. This data is also related to geography and time periods containing fewer than five devices at a time. If there are more than that.... They're trying to suppress the individual data at every step along the way. I really think comments saying that there is universal concern about this and that there's a lack of transparency.... PHAC has published; there have been articles in the media—we discussed this in our previous meeting—and there has been an open discussion throughout the pandemic regarding how we use data in a responsible, private and safe way, such that it is disaggregated and anonymized, to ensure that we have the best real-time information on how best to protect Canadians as they wish to move across the country, whether it's for business or personal reasons, whether or not it's safe for them to go from region to region or area to area.
We want to make sure that, as we go into this deep dive with officials and with the minister, we are also recognizing the real-time safety concerns of Canadians. We want to do our work efficiently, both here in committee and in the House, and make sure the will of the committee is heard.
Other colleagues, such as Mr. Green, have other concerns that we need to put on the committee table. We need to get to the crux of this, of what will satisfy the committee with regard to the concerns that Mr. Villemure has raised, so that we can move forward.