Thank you very much, Minister.
Good afternoon, Mr. Chair.
I'm happy to speak to the measures that were taken to respect the privacy of Canadians, which was utmost in our minds as we embarked on using mobility data, as the minister said, at the beginning of the pandemic, because of and in response to the pandemic. We ensured that the contract we had in place with Telus and the contract we have in place with BlueDot, as well as the RFP that you're aware has been posted, put forward a number of requirements to protect the privacy of Canadians.
We require that all data that is provided to the agency is de-identified and aggregated. It's aggregated either temporally or spatially, so in terms of either a period of time, by volume or by geographic region, to ensure that we cannot identify any single individual.
All the information we get is void of any personal information.