Dr. Martin French at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

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

February 10th, 2022 / 5:10 p.m.

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, As an Individual

I would like to see the Public Health Agency of Canada and the governments in Canada be more forthcoming. I feel they are doing a good job, but they could go further.

I mentioned the COVID Alert app, which is something I've studied. If we look at the privacy policy, which is on the website, objectively speaking, in terms of a landscape of privacy policies out there, it's pretty good. It's much more legible than many privacy policies.

Nevertheless, there are still...If you're an android OS user, you have to click through that policy to actually see the way the API works through Google Play to allow Google to access your location data.

I do think we need to go further.

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