After a report earlier this week from The New York Times detailing how location data sharing can be abused, CBC News reports on how Canada's three biggest telecommunications companies treat real-time location data. Rogers, Telus and Bell formed a joint venture in 2005, called EnStream, to develop means for users to make purchases with their mobile phones. It now provides banks and insurance companies with "identity verification and authentication services" to ensure users are who they say they are. The company also says it gets user consent to share such information, including location data. EnStream Chief Identity Officer Robert Blumenthal said, "Unlike the U.S., we have taken a more strict approach." 
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