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Coronavirus: Trudeau rules out phone-based surveillance for now

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The federal government isn’t looking at using location data from Canadians’ phones to track cases of the novel coronavirus, but isn’t ruling it out in the future, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday. “I think we recognize that in an emergency situation we need to take certain steps that wouldn’t be taken in a non-emergency situation, but as far as I know that is not a situation we are looking at right now,” he said. “But … all options are on the table to do what is necessary to keep Canadians safe.” Trudeau’s comments follow confusing messages from the city of Toronto about whether officials there were using location data from residents’ phones.

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