Thread by @MsAmyMacPherson

WORST possible development in #COVID19 pandemic must be stopped in #CDNpoli

Apple & Google to siphon 3 billion health records & track everyone's location + contacts 24/7. Those private records are then broadcast to general public

TELUS e-health must end

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

2/9 In response to some of your suggestions & articles that say a #COVID19 tracing app wouldn't harm Canadian privacy & security, I have more to contribute in the following posts #CDNpoli

RE This, see entries 3-9 in this thread

https://twitter.com/SteveRickettsSP/status/1249081743191097344

3/9 It's written by someone in a conflict of interest, with no experience in privacy, security, &/or health data issues. The author stands to gain financially from posting what he did. Also, Case is a game developer & Troncoso thinks the cloud is secure

kottke.org/about/

4/9 What they failed to research & share is that Canada's e-health records are already unsecure & we have an epidemic of hospitals falling prey to ransomware for their entire patient databases. This #COVID19 program would increase vulnerability by exponential magnitude #CDNpoli

5/9 They also fail to mention everyone working at a tech firm involved in the proposed #COVID19 tracing app will be able to see patient messages in an unencrypted form. Hasty & unregulated, we have no control over what they do with our private info & no legal oversight in Canada

6/9 Those people in tech firms include everyone employed at Google & Apple

Google's biz model is to profit from selling our private data & they were banned from working in Canadian e-health because they store their data in the US where Canadians have zero privacy/security rights

7/9 Whereas Apple is located in China, where no people have privacy or security rights

Canada & the United States remain locked in a bitter battle with no end in sight, regarding the Chinese govt's control of all biz data in its country & constant theft of our data + hacking

8/9 Canadian privacy & security, especially regarding e-health & banking, is a topic I've been working on for 12 yrs

I bet you didn't know Canada only has 25 officers even able to investigate breaches across our entire country & that 99% of cases are ignored due to no resources

9/9 Moreover, this represents mission creep for govt surveillance. Although police can't investigate our countless privacy breaches that have no criminal consequence, this COVID19 tracing app constitutes manufactured public consent to circumvent Charter rights & need for warrants

10/9 Postscript

Look, if you want to know how well Google is managing Canada's encrypted #privacy/#security then feast your eyes on this

I have 6,000 records to back this up + emails arguing with Interac & banks that are seeking legal indemnity

cc @cforcese #COVID19 #CDNpoli
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