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    1. Hi GovCanHealth: can you please explain why your COVID Alert app (on iOS) is sending (HEAD) requests to clients3•google•com? It looks like their captive portal verification endpoint, but I can’t think of a reason your app should do this. /cc mgeist
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    According to Canada's Privacy Commissioner, IP address (which this app absolutely does leak to Google) is considered Personal Information if the holder is able to link it to a personal identity (and Google has the ability to do this for most of us). priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/privacy-laws-in-canada/the-personal-information-protection-and-electronic-documents-act-pipeda/pipeda-compliance-help/pipeda-interpretation-bulletins/interpretations_02/#fn50-rf
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      So, it does seem that this app is unnecessarily, repeatedly identifying me to Google (in a way that could probably be tied to reporting data, with some clever data science). The actual reports come from retrieval•covid-notification•alpha•canada•ca, though, which is good.
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