I can try.
On the FluWatchers, for example, I participate, as I mentioned, in that. I received an invitation to participate, I consented to participate, and I know that when I'm responding to emails the Public Health Agency of Canada is going to take that data, the information I'm giving them, and hopefully use it to inform their epidemiological work.
With mobility tracking, a number of members on this committee and witnesses have been raising consent issues, and I think that these are really challenging issues. In a lot of ways it's not clear to me, and maybe members of the committee could please correct me if I'm wrong about the specific details of this. Every member of the Telus network, for example, knew that if they didn't want to have their data included they should opt out.
I don't want to just impugn this particular initiative. I think this is a general cultural practice that we have of clicking “I agree”. I think Monsieur Villemure said this before in comments before this committee. It's just our culture today. We don't tend to read the terms of service and privacy policies, so we're not often aware. How could we be? They're often not written very clearly. They're not written to be read easily or understood.
This is, I think, a big problem. Many organizations say they're using personal health information, mobility data and other kinds of information. Even after they aggregate it, for example, de-identify it, there's still this kind of issue of consent maybe looming in the background more generally.