Contact tracing apps in Australia
A new world for data privacy
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen governments across the
world restricting civil liberties and movement to new levels. To
aid the safe lifting of current public health restrictions, new
technologies are being developed – contact tracing apps
– and rolled out to automate labour intensive tasks critical
to containing the spread of the virus. Our contact tracing survey
summarises the principal regulatory and policy issues applicable to
contact tracing across a range of key jurisdictions in real
time.
Is technology being used by the government to monitor
and control the spread of COVID-19 (e.g. contact tracing app, CCTV,
cell phone location data, credit-card history)?
