Free smartphones won’t be used to contract-trace the vulnerable

By Jeremy Hainsworth / Glacier Media
3,500 donated phones expected to allow disadvantaged to access services

Hundreds of smartphones handed to Downtown Eastside (DTES) residents and other vulnerable individuals across the Lower Mainland and the rest of B.C. won’t be used for pandemic contact tracing, B.C.’s Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction says. Rather, the ministry said, the 3,500 phones would be distributed province-wide through work with both 7-Eleven and Telus to assist vulnerable people, including the homelessness, in having access to services.…

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May 13, 2020

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