How much of our personal privacy and freedom of movement are we
prepared to sacrifice to fight the spread of COVID-19 and have our
lives returned to normal?
And how do we safeguard against the laws becoming permanent,
and like meta data retention laws being used for a
wide range of 'unintended' ways to monitor and control the
population?
These are some of the questions being asked as the Federal
Government plans to introduce mobile tracking technology to
track the movements of people who have tested positive to
coronavirus, as well as the people they come into contact with.
The Government says the app will be introduced within the next
few weeks, as part of a strategy forward, 'a way out' from
the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced mandatory economic shutdown
and severe social restrictions across the nation.
