The government protests that it collects anonymized data on the movement of citizens, but scores of security experts have proven that all cell phones are personally identified. Canada seeks to expand its tracking surveillance into other health areas beyond COVID-19. ? TN Editor

Ontario's former privacy commissioner is sounding the alarm about the government's tracking of cellphone data to inform policy, after it was revealed recently that a federal agency has been analyzing the movements of Canadians since the onset of the pandemic.

"It concerns me enormously that this would enable the government to collect more and more information," Ann Cavoukian told The Epoch Times.

"I do not want to [see] a trend where the government is consistently doing this and starting now. You can't trust the government."

Cavoukian, who served as Ontario's privacy commissioner from 1997 to 2014, is founder of the advocacy group Global Privacy & Security by Design and heads the Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence at Ryerson University.

"In March 2020, [Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau said that tracking cellphone users was not being considered. Well, they did it, PHAC's been doing it, and they want to do it even more," Cavoukian said.