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>> Perhaps people don’t want public health agencies tracking their movement? Sure, nobody wants the government to track their movements. But lots of people ar
by sandworm101 5y ago
>> Perhaps people don’t want public health agencies tracking their movement?
Sure, nobody wants the government to track their movements. But lots of people are perfectly happy with government doing practical contact tracing of covid patients. The only difference is wording. Personally, I very much want to know if I the guy sitting beside me on that flight/bus was carrying omicron. If that means a government agency occasionally looks though cellphone records, so be it. I actually trust my government to do such things.
Unlike Americans, Canadians generally give their government much more credit in these areas. A Canadian generally trusts that such information isn't going to be handed over to police without good cause. And they know that the police have better things to be doing that tracking people for petty offences. And even if caught for some crime, Canadians aren't subject to the US prison industry. At each layer their is a greater level of trust in government. The net effect is that these stories don't really bother much of anyone.
- gentleman11 5y agoContact tracing involves some degree of consent, but this is dragnet surveillance without your knowledge.
- parkingrift 5y agoThat’s fine. Different people from different countries with different laws can have different opinions about surveillance. But that just further begs the question of why the Canadian public health agency wasn’t open and honest about it.
- pessimizer 5y ago> I very much want to know if I the guy sitting beside me on that flight/bus was carrying omicron. If that means a government agency occasionally looks though cellphone records, so be it. Put me down for definitely not wanting this. I'd rather have omicron.
- sandworm101 5y agoContact tracing isn't about you. If you were on that flight beside that guy then you now likely have it either way. Tracing is about allowing you to know that you have been exposed so that you can prevent yourself from spreading it to other people. It is about sacrificing some personal privacy in order to protect other people.