They Went From “Flatten The Curve” To “Put Your Hands Behind Your Back” So Fast We Didn’t Even Notice

Toronto Star (Outlined);

In what’s being called a “shocking” misuse of personal health information, Ontario police services made unauthorized searches of the province’s COVID-19 first-responder data portal — including querying entire postal codes to find active cases of the virus, according to documents obtained by two civil rights groups.
 
In a memo addressed to all police chiefs in June, Ontario’s Ministry of the Solicitor General said an audit of the COVID-19 database — a controversial and now-shuttered portal for first responders — revealed “many” searches violating the province’s directive that the tool be used cautiously and with precision.
 
The audit raised “concerns that the portal is being used beyond the express purpose that the government intends,” wrote Richard Stubbings, assistant deputy minister of the public safety division, in a June 11 letter.
 
Among the unauthorized searches listed: “broad-based” municipal searches with no specific address, including queries of postal codes or of another municipality, and searches of a specific name unrelated to an active call for service.
 
“I strongly urge police services boards and chiefs of police to ensure that access to this critical information is strictly for responding to a call for service,” Stubbings wrote.
 
The memo — obtained through a freedom of information request by the Canadian Constitution Foundation, a civil rights charity — is the latest problem stemming from a portal dubbed an “extraordinary” privacy invasion by human rights groups and deemed an unnecessary infringement by Ontario’s privacy commissioner.
 
“I was shocked when I read the extent of what appears to be abuse of that database,” Christine Van Geyn, litigation director with the CCF, said Wednesday.
 
“At the same time, when you look at what access was granted under that regulation … it’s not surprising that such a database was abused.”
 
The temporary portal was created via an emergency order in April, letting first responders including police officers access personal information such as names, addresses and birthdates of people who tested positive for COVID-19. The database was intended to be used solely by 911 operators and only for active calls, to aid efforts to limit the spread of the virus.
 
The province halted police access to the database in July, after a legal challenge filed by human rights groups including the Canadian Civil Liberties Association argued the portal was an unjustified invasion of privacy.
 
[…]
 
Data released as part of the CCLA’s lawsuit revealed Ontario police services searched the portal 95,000 times. While some services, including Toronto police, never accessed the portal, a handful of others made up the bulk of the queries.
 
Durham Regional Police and Thunder Bay Regional Police alone conducted 40 per cent of the searches, with nearly 25,000 and 14,000 searches respectively, according to the CCLA.
 
In a Sept. 1 report to its police services board, Durham police called the database “extremely unreliable,” saying that, in good faith, its staff adopted broad, “wild-card style” searches to glean results when more precise queries failed.

Heckofajob there, technocrats. Thanks to your efforts, the day is fast approaching when the majority of those who contract COVID will refuse to be tested at all.

51 Replies to “They Went From “Flatten The Curve” To “Put Your Hands Behind Your Back” So Fast We Didn’t Even Notice”

    1. That was a sobering read. Be interested if anybody else is torn between reaching for a tinfoil hat and stocking up on ammo and barricading the front door.

      I know I don’t trust that prïck bill gates further than I could throw him.

      mhb23re

      1. He may be a prick, but a very smart one, However, his ideas of a noble calling to help humanity coincide very nicely with his desire for profit; not a bad impulse but image how the world’s richest man must be swarmed by ego-boosting , fawning and scheming lackies. He is probably no longer in contact with reality.

        He doesn’t drive his car, cook his meals, nurse his children, even count his money. All mundane things that keep our feet on the ground, stuck in the mud in our pied a terre 🙂

        1000 years ago, he would have been building cathedrals.

    2. The next thing is to prove that this is true.

      Airy language about number of doctors from here and there, saying this and that, does not qualify.

    3. I posted that link on FB – Instant “Fake News” banner … click on it and a simple statement.
      “This has been fact checked by independant fact checkers and found to be false”
      Who are these independant fact checkers eh..?

      Most likely a group of 20 something Wokeratti “working” in Silicon Valley no doubt.

      LMAO..typical Bullshit from FB as per usual…No diff than MSMedia. Leftist FILTH.

  1. “If you’re doing nothing wrong, you got nothing to hide”, right jackboot lickers? Tell me again how cops are the good guys, not merely cynical thugs abusing the system.

    1. That sir was one of my first thoughts. That and big brother is watching everybody. For all those who have their heads in the sand, reality is about kick you in the ass.

      1. “We’re doing this for your safety” is the excuse that the pretend Volkspolizei masquerading as airport security use to rummage through my stuff. For some reason, they always seem disappointed when they don’t find anything illegal or dangerous.

        How bright are they? A few weeks ago, my boots–my boots!!!–were pulled over for further inspection. I guess the buckles on them were a threat to national security.

        1. Remember Ahmed the shoe bomber? I am sure your demographic is about as likely to blow planes up as his. At Pearson they checked my mother’s shoes too. She is Polish, 75 years old, obviously a terrorist.

      2. Yes, contact tracking is a normal police procedure, and now we must all accept it “for our personal medical safety”. Ah, how kind of them.

    2. yes colon R~4 all cops are bad, we’ve heard that droning before from you, so when will you grow up BOY????

    1. Totally Evident. Bang on Peter.
      And his OPP thugs acting just like the SA

      Kampfs replete with guard towers no doubt.
      Taking bets on the advent of Euthanasia rooms…??

      1. Jebus, you guys just noticed? I’ve been in and out and about Ontario for a long time. The OPP are crooks on wheels for as long as I’ve ever had any interaction with them, or just as a casual observer. Azzwholes-R-Us. The RCMP in the western Provinces….ditto. I’ve had better interactions with the US cops and border dudes, than north of 49.

  2. L- Voluntary testing… nothing like having a false positive used to destroy your life and take your gov’t. ‘social credit score into the red(as in Red China). A positive one should be a passport 2 weeks later, to an elevated immune group status, not a police state target. There was never a possibility to stop the virus spread but only to slow down the rate of acquiring herd immunity. This under the fantasy that a cheap, easy to manufacture, safe and effective vaccine(s) would be found faster than reasonable.

    Presently, a large percentage are asymptomatic, another large percentage have low viral loads and mild symptoms and if diagnosed are instructed to go home and isolate for two weeks while, like an influenza, their natural immune system will cure them. The small percentage who are high risk with co-morbidities, now have a death rate dramatically lower than back in March, as therapeutics have markedly improved.

    Additionally, the percentage with natural/acquired immunity(T-cell) is far higher than predicted.
    Herd immunity is being achieve faster than predicted due to that error in earlier computer modeling of the pandemic.

    Presently, Corvid-19(C.C.P.) positive test results are (if graphed correctly !) for justification for returning to normal economic, social and especially political life A.S.A.P. . The death and morbidity toll of the shut-down, the restrictions are the greater crime against humanity.

    Statistically speaking, a growing herd immunity seems to be evident in many countries, as most every worst case estimate used for the shutdown of the economic, social and political life last winter has proven wildly inaccurate.

    The shocking, most terrifying aspect is the number of governments, who having indoctrinated their citizenry into a panic-demic, are using the compromised political immune system to infect the body politic with the brain parasite of Marxism’s most deadly viral strain: Maoism-49. …

  3. Larry, nice of you to sum up all that I and others have been saying in such a civil manner. I no longer believe or trust any of the bastards who are still pushing masks and social distancing as none of it does a damn thing.

  4. Well, I’m not shocked.

    Quarantine – restricting movements of the infected and vulnerable
    Curfew – restricting the movements of everyone

    I’d say the second was the government’s approach and it is called tyranny; as well as being ruinous and ineffective.

  5. The cops don’t exactly endear themselves to anyone, ever.
    Of course we know the police chiefs are liars as they lied about handgun sources of gangbangers and criminals in general.
    If you want something done poorly put the government in charge.

  6. it’s the political class that is the biggest problem, they sign the cop’s pay check. And $$$$$$ is the controlling factor!
    Ford, Tory, Hudak, Brown, Scheep, The Tool, were the fuck are the real conservatives????

    1. Deep thinking, smart, and insightful people know this. These are the kind of people who frame constitutions. They know how groups of human leaders, when assembled and empowered, take on the most loathsome characteristics of the worst individual in that group. It is why we have prohibitions on “search and seizure” (Chapter 8, Canadian Charter of Rights).
      “Sorry” doesn’t cut it. Take these bastards to court.

  7. Apparently its all right though for Blackie to let commies from China to visit an illegal gambling den in Toronto, during a pandemic though. York Regional Police raided a mansion that was used as an illegal casino which had frequent guests that flew in from China.

  8. You have a giant growing government, with increasing control and information of the citizens. With just those ingredients, if you think anything other than these type of abuses are going to increase, you are sadly mistaken.

    Government needs to be shrunk by a large amount (at the very least by half and more likely it should be 10% of its current size as a start) or we are heading for tyranny. Some would legitimately argue we have arrived at the start of it now.

    1. “Some would legitimately argue we have arrived at the start of it now.”

      Tyranny in Canada, officially began in 1982, when the Manchurian Charter became law.

  9. So, the same uses they put their gun registry to. I have to go check if water still runs downhill.

    Anyone who is currently in power, is always seeking more power. It’s what bureaucrats do.

    “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.” ~ Frank Herbert
    “The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.” ~ Frank Herbert

  10. I was recently told it was time to download Trudeau’s new ap to track COVID because it is now available in Manitoba. R-I-G-H-T….My phone is too old. I was thinking about an upgrade but no way am I doing it now!

    1. You were “asked,” not “told.”
      For now, at least.
      I would not be surprised if, in a few months, we will all be “told” to download it, “or else.”

    2. I don’t use a “smart phone” and I’m not connected to the web on my current phone (a rather good flippy), that I control if I do get on the web or not, that I walk around with. It’s a phone, that’s all. They gubmint gonna force me to get one, or a portable webinator?

  11. They will get away with it. They always do.
    Khanada has no real history, but it still does have a history of police becoming thugs while everyone else goes baa-baa.

  12. One voice of sanity has shown up in the mainstream media. The redoubtable Randall Denley in the Ottawa Citizen:

    “Ontario Premier Doug Ford has cast himself as the province’s COVID-19 frightener-in-chief. That’s not useful, not well-supported by the facts, and it undermines everything his government has been trying to do.”

    https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/randall-denley-ontarios-new-covid-models-show-everyone-should-stop-panicking-especially-doug-ford/wcm/649518d4-cad8-4cf0-be14-f52700a03043

  13. I have always hated cops as my parents always taught me to stay away from them as much as possible. That of course included staying out of trouble but to never ever talk to them, cooperate with them or give them any excuse to have contact with me. They said too many young native girls have been abused by them. The default discourtesy towards innocent and harmless people to say nothing of outright illegal conduct that I have seen happen to others is sickening. Hate them even more now were that even possible.

    1. IDNF, I agree your people have collectively been mistreated by governments, Police, and religions. I understand your collective and individual mistrust as well. However, just as with any other segment of society, it is better to seek redress after a problem or confrontation with police, rather than to provoke, or disrespect them, as that just gives them a reason to push back. I used to trust cops, but not in the last thirty years. I have taken the time to know my rights, and I will stand my ground politely, if I am ever confronted by one of them. In particular, the national militaristic police, are Liberal toadies, but all seem to be using the “Us V Them” attitude. They are always looking for a reason to charge us with something at any time, so don’t give them that satisfaction. Also, if possible, record the interaction if you can.

      1. We will have nothing to do with these filthy pigs. You know what happens when you wrestle with pigs? Also what’s this “your people” stuff? I am just like you. There is no “your people”. It is you and I together. When a native girl dies in foster care it is your little girl too. It is not some “your people” person.

        1. “We will have nothing to do with these filthy pigs. ”

          Words to live by. They are a bigger threat to law abiding folks than random thugs without uniform are.

  14. Oh well, likely boredom, eh?

    I mean, all the murderers and terrorists are safely behind bars and all illegal immigrants are homeward bound.

    Right?

  15. The coming class action lawsuits over this fraud of a pandemic are going to be epic.
    Cases do not equal deaths.
    This is over.

  16. “I strongly urge police services boards and chiefs of police”

    Ah, yes, the Canadian call to arms: to ‘strongly urge’… this should be filed under “need a new country.”

  17. Pro tip: Cops aren’t friends of law abiding citizens and never will be. Unless absolutely necessary avoid them like the plague, and truth be told, they’d much prefer it that way.
    Their ingrained “Us vs. Them” bunker mentality ensures that an 80 year old grandmother is treated no differently in a traffic stop than some low life caught with break in tools in the back seat of his car.

    1. Burton…100% Correct.

      I’ve always thought they look at us as per this statement by a Corrections Officer on the Joe Green radio show back in ~2006

      We are looked upon as:
      “Non-convicted individuals residing in the Community”

      1. “Non-convicted individuals residing in the Community”

        That’s pretty much it in a nutshell right there.
        Wow!!!

    2. Well, I am going to disagree with some of you. Any police encounters I have had my entire life in three Canadian provinces and two foreign countries (US [NYC] and Japan) have been 95% positive. When I have needed assistance, the response has been usually very rapid, thoughtful and effective, even when they could not catch burglars, a challenging task. When I was in the wrong, I generally deserved the traffic ticket and was treated with respect (except for an Ottawa cop who tried to flirt, but I learned how to deal with those guys as a teenager, so no biggie).

      The only negative experience was when the Calgary police grabbed my teenage 6’5″ son, waiting for me on his deceased grandmother’s doorstep, as a neighbour reported a possible break-in attempt. They took him downtown, scrutinized his story that he flew in to meet his mom (had the boarding pass) and let him go, but he had to walk back in cold weather there, in an unfamiliar city, as he did not have cab fare. That was mean. Just ’cause he was big does not mean that he can just be cast aside. Today’s helicopter moms would be initiating lawsuits.

      My BC neighbourhood has regular visiting druggies/crazies and the police generally deal with them very gently. I have only seen one idiot flattened to the ground (not cuffed), but he was being an a**.

      I also worked worked for the RCMP for 3 years over 30 years ago. The members were generally very good-hearted people who tested high on interests in community service. I did research on policing and have a published paper showing that their mental health, due to fairly good recruiting even back then, was the same as the general population, including some bad apples. Many colleagues were coaches for after-school kids’ sports.

      Now, I know things have changed, and some of the training for forced entry and how to deal with persons resisting arrest may be excessive. I love crime movies too, so perhaps some of today’s recruits want to be special tactical types, but I think screening is still pretty good.

      What is seriously wrong is at the policy level, a general stand-down order by police and civic management to ignore civil disobedience (vagrancy, mentally ill off, or never on, their meds, road blocks and other not-very-peaceful protests) and flagrant abuse of the law (e.g. flagrant drug use, soliciting money from traffic barriers, using chain saws in family parks, allowing dysfunctional tent cities). Lefty city councils drive this “we care about the downtrodden” agenda, which amounts to abuse. No parent would allow this, in fact, would have their children removed for such bad behaviour.

      Ontario is crazy and the cops have abused the system, for sure. Ford, sadly, has become a fake conservative.

      1. So cops have never kicked your door in, terrorized your kids, used foul language and then left for no reason whatsoever? Lucky you.

  18. Burton… but the cops are friends with many law-breakers. Look at how illegal native blockades of highways and railways are treated. The cops never clear the blockades but rather sit down with the law-breakers to smoke peace pipes and chat. Meanwhile, reporters are blocked by the cops from even getting close to the illegal activity, and in the case of Caledonia, law-abiding citizens are arrested and charged for questioning policy inaction.

  19. This is likely a first. The Red Star quoting and supporting the Canadian Constitutional Foundation (CCF). Everything that the CCF fights for – freedom of individuals from government control – is opposed by the Red Star.

  20. Well, I am going to disagree with some of you. Any police encounters I have had my entire life in three Canadian provinces and two foreign countries (US [NYC] and Japan) have been 95% positive. When I have needed assistance, the response has been usually very rapid, thoughtful and effective, even when they could not catch burglars, a challenging task. When I was in the wrong, I generally deserved the traffic ticket and was treated with respect (except for an Ottawa cop who tried to flirt, but I learned how to deal with those guys as a teenager, so no biggie).

    The only negative experience was when the Calgary police grabbed my teenage 6’5″ son, waiting for me on his deceased grandmother’s doorstep, as a neighbour reported a possible break-in attempt. They took him downtown, scrutinized his story that he flew in to meet his mom (had the boarding pass) and let him go, but he had to walk back in cold weather there, in an unfamiliar city, as he did not have cab fare. That was mean. Just ’cause he was big does not mean that he can just be cast aside. Today’s helicopter moms would be initiating lawsuits.

    My BC neighbourhood has regular visiting druggies/crazies and the police generally deal with them very gently. I have only seen one idiot flattened to the ground (not cuffed), but he was being an a**.

    I also worked worked for the RCMP for 3 years over 30 years ago. The members were generally very good-hearted people who tested high on interests in community service. I did research on policing and have a published paper showing that their mental health, due to fairly good recruiting even back then, was the same as the general population, including some bad apples. Many colleagues were coaches for after-school kids’ sports.

    Now, I know things have changed, and some of the training for forced entry and how to deal with persons resisting arrest may be excessive. I love crime movies too, so perhaps some of today’s recruits want to be special tactical types, but I think screening is still pretty good.

    What is seriously wrong is at the policy level, a general stand-down order by police and civic management to ignore civil disobedience (vagrancy, mentally ill off, or never on, their meds, road blocks and other not-very-peaceful protests) and flagrant abuse of the law (e.g. flagrant drug use, soliciting money from traffic barriers, using chain saws in family parks, allowing dysfunctional tent cities). Lefty city councils drive this “we care about the downtrodden” agenda, which amounts to abuse.

  21. How soon before we wake up and find that overnight we went from locking our doors from the inside to the state baring and locking them from the outside.

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