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28th April 2020
In a sharp drop from the beginning of Canada's lockdown, after two months only one in six Canadians left their home on weekends compared to one in three at the beginning. The marketing company Environics Analytics compiled the report by analysing a database of anonymised location data from 2.3 million mobile phones and looking for people who went at least 100 metres beyond their home postal code for a minimum of 30 minutes on at least one weekend day, and used demographic information tied to…
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1st April 2020
A day after John Tory, the mayor of the City of Toronto, told thousands of attendees at an online event hosted by TechTO that the city was gathering cellphone location data from telecoms in order to identify areas where residents were still congregating despite the city's social distancing rules, he withdrew the claim. City staff explained that an offer had been made to share anonymous cellphone location data with the City and it had been passed along to Toronto Public Health and the Emergency…