Some privacy and data experts think the ArriveCAN app may be violating the Charter of Rights and Freedoms — reports Global News.
According to critics, the ArriveCAN app may have infringed upon Canadians’ constitutional right to move freely when it sent erroneous quarantine orders to fully-vaccinated travellers last month.
Ottawa previously admitted that the ArriveCAN app sent false quarantine notifications to approximately 3% of travellers due to a glitch. The underlying issue was fixed less than a week after it was flagged.
However, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) said in a recent statement that quarantine orders had already been sent to more than 10,000 people by then. The number represents 0.7% of average cross-border travellers per week.
“It creates direct harm for people who are receiving this incorrect notification and following it,” said Matt Malone, a law professor at the Thompson River University in Kamloops, B.C., specializing in trade secrets and confidential information.
“The government hasn’t provided sufficient transparency about why that happened. And there needs to be better accountability practices in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
Several experts have even questioned if ordering people to quarantine for two weeks without cause amounts to unlawful detention. Many are also peeved by the lack of publicly available information regarding ArriveCAN, the inner workings of which are completely confidential.
The app collects personal data from travellers, including their name, telephone number, address, and vaccination status, which is then used to help public health officials enforce the government’s quarantine rules. Concerns have also been raised regarding the app’s collection, storage, and use of data.
Late last month, the federal Privacy Commissioner launched a formal investigation into the ArriveCAN app following complaints.
While the government maintains that ArriveCAN is reducing processing times at the border, the CBSA disagrees.
Meanwhile, Canadians are left wondering why they have to keep using the app in the first place. After all, COVID-19 restrictions all over the country have already eased. Previous reports indicated the feds are likely planning to turn ArriveCAN into a pre-customs screening tool, which may be why they’re pushing it so hard.
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The entire process is premised on the belief that Canadian’s rights should be suspended indefinitely based on flawed reasoning, poor data and a position that rights are only whatever is convenient to the government.
As an immigrant, I’ve been surprised at how willingly and quietly Canadians have obediently handed over their rights. Some aren’t just docile sheep about it, but actively argue in favour of more eroding of their rights.
Shhhh… someone might tell you to leave the country (the greatest on Earth, based on the communist manifesto by Marx) if you dare criticize the Supreme Leader and his monumental achievements.
Fall in line comrade.
New court documents are showing that Trudeau brought in the vax mandates only to scare people into voting for him. He’d previously said he would not consider mandates because they served no purpose and would only divide people. He seems to have then remembered that division means votes for him. Docs show his staff begging government scientists and drs for any evidence that mandates could be justified and none were wiling or able to give him that evidence. So, he pushed the mandates anyway, knowing fear of covid would make people dumb enough to simply accept that mandates would somehow help.
“It’s to fight covid” is all it takes for people to turn off their brains.
I will never use the arrivecan app.
So far, Trudeau has:
– restricted entry to Canada for Canadian citizens without any scientific, medical or logical justification.
– allowed and imposed arbitrary detention of Canadians without due process.
– suspended parts of the Canadian charter of rights because people called him names.
– forced Canadian banks to seize property and examine financial records of Canadians with no due process.
– collected and mismanaged personal and private data of Canadians with no reasonable justification.
He hasn’t sent his goons to arrest most Canadians yet, so there are still a lot that are onboard with the abuses as long as it doesn’t affect them and as long as he first says “it’s to fight covid”.
You might not use the app, but that won’t stop him.
A lot of people use their gut as their thinking organ….wait until another year of recession and skyrocketing inflation will empty that gut.
With Trudeau forcing farmers to reduce their production levels massively, food prices and inflation will keep going up. And when our farmers protest, like they are in Europe, Trudeau and his groupies will demonize and criminalize them exactly like they did with the truckers. And the useful idiots that support the libs will swallow the whole load again.
Thank God that unuseful geniuses exist as well. Otherwise, we’d be doomed.
Well, they’d be less likely to support huge food production cutbacks in the middle of a global food shortage.
Possibly hundreds millions looking toward famine and starvation, and while Canada could help alleviate that, the Liberals and their useless idiots say “nah, we know better”.
Maybe I should have simple called them fools.
Maybe. I don’t have a soft spot for Liberals or those who support them but I do care about using the increasingly heated and insulting rhetoric to get the political point across. For many people term Balkan(ization) means chaotic and violent mess of inability to resolve political differences in a constructive, civilized and above all peaceful way. There is a famous Croatian writer, Miroslav Krleža, who quite aptly compared pre WW2 Balkan to a tavern where as soon as someone turns off the lights, the knives start flashing and the stabbing begins. I don’t want that for Canada. It might seem far fetched for those who blissfully never smelled the gunpowder and exist in the what Japanese call peace blur but I saw how it starts.
I’d see that as a stretch. It’s not really apt to compare ethnic/religious/racial divisions to political divisions. Recognizing the dangers of ideologues is not the same as ethnic hatred.
A persons race/ethnicity does not mean their ideology is so blind and radical that they are willing force people to starve for the “common good”. A politician with utopian, Marxist ideals can and most often does.
There is no better term for those that support such politicians as useful idiots and fools.
Ethnic, religious and racial divisions ARE political divisions. I doubt that you don’t understand this nor that you are that naive to believe there is a disconnect between the two. But if it helps you shore up your argument, feel free to see what I said as a stretch.
Many wars were and still are fought on the basis of ethnic and racial hatred. Nazis, with their Übermensch ideology of the superior race were doing exactly that, starving (and much worse) other ethnic groups in their concentration camps. Their ideology was so blind and radical that they were willing to starve (and exterminate) other, what they considered “lower” races for the common good of protecting the purity of their fictitious Aryan race – to use your words.
As an example, all recent Balkan wars were instigated and led by politicians and were in their essence fought on the ethnic and religious basis. Political, ideological, ethnic, racial and religious divisions are intertwined. They are not separate. They are compartmentalized only in an abstract mind of those who, lacking actual experience with these things, look at them from the dry logical and semantic point. True, recognizing the dangers of ideologues is not the same as ethnic hatred but we are not talking here about recognizing dangers of ideologies but pushing a hateful narrative about those with different political positions. If it’s a ethnic hatred or political hatred, it doesn’t matter. Either will do just fine to deepen the divisions and put us on the path of more serous conflict. There are less heated, insulting and hateful ways to voice one’s legitimate concerns and opposition to any political option.
Again, all of these are abstract arguments of an armchair philosopher. I’ve seen how it starts in real life. I won’t say ‘trust me, I know’ because you will probably decide not to believe me. But I know.
It seems that the juice was not worth the squeeze
A lot of people use their gut as their thinking organ….wait until another year of recession and skyrocketing inflation will empty that gut.
Then you will go to jail… big brother knows what’s best for you.