It is true that we have had meetings roughly every two weeks with the Public Health Agency on various measures related to COVID and their impact on privacy. In the period in question—it was in the early days of the pandemic, March and April 2020—there were a lot of subjects being discussed, including the COVID Alert app. We were informed of the particular program that you are currently reviewing on the basis that the government felt that it was obtaining anonymized and aggregated data. It's on that basis that we offered to provide advice. It was declined. We don't have a role to pre-authorize every government initiative, so we left it at that.
On February 7th, 2022. See this statement in context.