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Tracking a pandemic: an unacceptable invasion of privacy

16 April 2020

3:30 PM

16 April 2020

3:30 PM

The federal government’s plan to use a voluntary tracking app to monitor our movements – in an attempt to stem the spread of coronavirus – is an unacceptable invasion of privacy.

The app would track where you have been, who you have been in proximity with, and for how long.

Apparently, the app needs 40 per cent of the population online to be efficacious – a similar app in Singapore only has 20 per cent of their citizenry signed up.

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