Canadians shouldn’t have to give up privacy rights to prevent the spread of COVID-19

The government should be using this situation to improve individual privacy rights, not being content to let the status quo continue, or worse yet, use this as cover to allow our rights to be further eroded.

Canadian digital privacy laws were inadequate prior to COVID-19. Not only do we need a framework to protect privacy for COVID-19-related contact tracing, but we also need new data protection laws writ large, writes Michelle Rempel Garner.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY CONSERVATIVE MP MICHELLE REMPEL GARNER

May 6, 2020

As governments around the world look for strategies to slow the spread of COVID-19, there have been increasing questions about how Canada will do the same. One common acknowledgement is that in order to lift mass isolation measures while containing the spread of the virus, jurisdictions must have ro...

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