Can the Public Health Agency get this information from cellular providers without a warrant, or did some new legislation authorize this? I'm unfamiliar with Canadian law but this would be the basis of class-action lawsuits against the cellular providers in the US if there wasn't a clear legal authorization to hand over that data.
Coles Notes version: Unless someone can point out a specific abuse, given the current State of Emergency declared in Parliament, the government could just make a semi-coherent argument and a judge would let the people decide in the next election.
But understand, that's a gross oversimplification where I didn't show my work and jumped to the conclusion. Explaining in detail, while explaining the differences between our legal systems would be far too much effort.
I did some consulting work for a big Canadian telco, a project to monetize their cell tower data.
It was obviously all tokenized. Not sure if there was any restrictions on who could buy it, but use cases were mostly about knowing how many people were in a certain area (e.g. an outdoor space) and how long they stayed there (e.g. to properly price the cost of billboards).
It's pretty common, afaik, to measure how many pairs of eyes can potential see adverts.
Put your phone in a faraday cage pouch. Which helps, except for all the car companies shoving 4g chips in new models nowadays. Still TBD how to disable those.
