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Requirement for N.B. restaurants to collect contact information raises privacy questions

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COVID-19 pandemic, guidelines allowing them to do so vary by province.New Brunswick restaurants require all patrons who dine-in to leave a name and phone number, to be used in the event contact tracing needs to be done through the restaurant.Halifax-based privacy lawyer David Fraser says this raises questions.“It does make sense to collect some of that information,” Fraser says. “But you always need to be thinking about the balance.

What’s the privacy impact and does it outweigh the public health benefit?” N.B. COVID rules require venues collect patrons’ contact info in case of outbreak Fraser says people need to know why the information is being collected and what happens to it.“How long is it going to be kept for and who’s going to have.

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