Originally Posted by
24left
CBC published the article. I would ask them. There is also is this comment, so perhaps ask Ann Cavoukian as well.
"Ann Cavoukian, Ontario's former information and privacy commissioner, calls Air Canada's move to become the first airline in North America to roll out these mandatory temperature checks "ridiculous."
"It's so outrageous what they're doing," said Cavoukian, who added she fears it's an optics measure meant to make people feel more comfortable about getting back on planes.
"If I was commissioner, I would really clamp down hard and say to Air Canada, 'What authorization do you have to collect personal information?'"
The compliance side of me (GDPR, HIPPA, PIPEDA, etc are all parts of my daily job) says that - if all you do is check someone's temperature with a no-touch method, without asking their name, or ticket or anything, at the point of boarding, and don't store that information at all, just a simple hand-held check that's not connected to anything, the privacy commissioner actually has no say in the matter. And that's because no personal information is being asked and no personal information is being collected or stored or processed in any way that can be identified back to a person.