{"id":8056,"date":"2022-05-12T15:27:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T15:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2022-05-12T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T15:27:36","slug":"health-agency-tracked-canadians-trips-to-liquor-store-via-phones-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8056","title":{"rendered":"Health agency tracked Canadians&#8217; trips to liquor store via phones during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/health-agency-tracked-canadians-trips-to-liquor-stores-pharmacies-via-phones-during-pandemic\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PHAC-1-4.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report reveals PHAC was able to view a detailed snapshot of people\u2019s behaviour, including grocery store visits, gatherings with family and friends, time\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The National Post is reporting about the Public Health Agency of Canada and their use of mobility data that <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8000\">a group of us wrote about<\/a> in The Conversation (Canada). The story goes into more detail about how <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/health-agency-tracked-canadians-trips-to-liquor-stores-pharmacies-via-phones-during-pandemic\">Health agency tracked Canadians&#8217; trips to liquor store via phones during pande<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/health-agency-tracked-canadians-trips-to-liquor-stores-pharmacies-via-phones-during-pandemic\">mic<\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em>The government provided one of the reports commissioned by PHAC from <a href=\"https:\/\/bluedot.global\/\">BlueDot<\/a> to the House of Commons. The Ethics Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourcommons.ca\/DocumentViewer\/en\/44-1\/ETHI\/report-4\/page-39#3\">report discussing what happened and making recommendations is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report reveals PHAC was able to view a detailed snapshot of people\u2019s behaviour, including grocery store visits, gatherings with family and friends, time\u2026 The National Post is reporting about the Public Health Agency of Canada and their use of mobility data that a group of us wrote about in The Conversation (Canada). The story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8056\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health agency tracked Canadians&#8217; trips to liquor store via phones during pandemic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-ethics-of-data-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8059,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions\/8059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}