Damien Kurek at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On February 10th, 2022. See this statement in context.

February 10th, 2022 / 4:50 p.m.

Conservative

Damien Kurek Conservative Battle River—Crowfoot, AB

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

First, thank you to our witnesses. I appreciate your coming to our committee today and sharing your expertise with us.

Dr. French, you talked about the FluWatchers app and the website, the platform and how that's informed some of the COVIDTrends data. A key difference there is that one is consent-based and one is informed by a whole range of other data.

Could you provide comment on the difference between consent for data being collected voluntarily or consent being directly given, versus some of the wide variety of collection that might have taken place on the COVIDTrends map?

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