Alberta Plans On Enforcing Quarantine Through Smartphones

Midsection of businessman using smart phone while standing on footbridge in city

“I was very clear that we intend to follow the lessons learned from successful countries like Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea to more quickly reopen our economy,” Kenney told the legislature Wednesday. “But they would be ... much more inclined to trust these privacy-invasive measures if they had some certainty that these temporary measures would have a finite end,” said Polsky, who added that emergency measures can always be renewed if necessary.

Dr. Ameeta Singh, who specializes in infectious diseases at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, expects the vast majority of people would follow quarantine orders.“To be honest, I never thought that such a strategy might be considered in Canada, but sometimes in the interest of the greater public health, such measures may be necessary,” said Singh, who is also a clinical professor at the University of Alberta.

How would that work? Your article does not explain. Couldn't someone just leave their phone at home when they go out? Or if immediate response required, give access to someone else to reply? Details, please.

The province taking over border screening makes sense, not so sure how I feel about this, definitely a slippery slope...

Absolutely disgusting I never thought I would see Canada devolve into a Police State.

acoyne Suck my what?

Laid off. Phone is gone tomorrow. Good luck.

I'll start a go fund me to buy phones and attach them to rats

This crap makes me want to go out just to screw with their data.

Track me!!! Track me!!! Can you pay me for the data you collect? Mail me a cheque. Alberta

acoyne Government tapping phones for the good of the public. Here we are. cdnpoli

How stupid is that? People will just leave their phone at home.

And it begins.

what happens if you dont take your phone with you or have a smart phone?

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