Plans to combine TransLink’s Compass fare card with BC’s new identification cards have privacy advocates and BC’s privacy commissioner concerned, The Vancouver Sun reports. The plans are contained in the government’s whitepaper for the new ID card program. “I don’t expect my bus pass to track me,” said the executive director of the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association. Meanwhile, BC’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, Transport Canada and TransLink have unveiled an online map displaying traffic information based on cellphone signals, raising concerns about personal data being collected.
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