Toronto is gathering cellphone location data from telecoms to find out where people are still congregating amid coronavirus shutdownThe City of Toronto is obtaining cellphone data from wireless carriers to help it identify where people have assembled in groups, part of its attempts to slow the spread of COVID-19, Mayor John Tory said on Monday. But city staff said Tuesday morning the city doesn’t plan to collect such data.“We had … the cellphone companies give us all the data on the pinging off their network on the weekend so we could see, ‘Where were people still congregating?’” Tory said during an online video-conferencing event Monday evening hosted by TechTO, a local meetup organization. “Because the biggest enemy of fighting this thing is people congregating close together.”Tory said the data will be used to generate a heat map. He did not name the companies that had provided the city with data.read more: https://nationalpost.com/technology/city-of-toronto-gathering-cellphone-location-data-from-telecoms-in-bid-to-slow-spread-of-covid-19-tory/wcm/f916f892-b47d-43a4-85aa-2a214e136ee0
_________________SI Moderator - Greg Gordon
Leave the phone at home!!!
_________________Lisa
There is a uk show called Hunted you will find out how much the government actually does know about you as they can duplicate your phone if they want to
_________________Dominic Shiells
Dominic, The gov't knows everything you and I do. Facebook knows everything about us and China's Tik-Tok (if you use it) definitely knows everything about you!We are entering that day and age!
