I think it's part of the overall data ecosystem, as some people refer to it, in which we find ourselves. It's that movement that I spoke about between private and public sectors, the flows of data from private sector to public sector.
There's a tremendous amount of mobility data being collected by all kinds of actors in the private sector. At the beginning of the pandemic and throughout the pandemic, companies like Google and Fitbit were publishing their analytics based on people's mobility data, analytics for Canadian cities and Canadian areas. This mobility data about us is collected by many different private sector actors and there are commercial applications for these data. As we can see in this example, government can be applying for that data.
I think that's why it's important that we need to think about modernizing both our private sector and our public sector data protection laws. We need to think about the way in which data flows from the private sector to the public sector and is then used by the public sector.
I think, in particular, that flow between public and private has been one that hasn't really been well considered in legislation in the past. Certainly the collection in the private sector context of these enormous quantities of data, and not just location data, but very fine-grained data about all of our activities, is a real issue.