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Reema Rattan, Liam Armstrong, Carly Dober and Judith Peppard
Covid-19 digital tracing app - steady creep of a surveillance state
1 seconds Posted Apr 27, 2020 at 8:00 am.
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The roll out of the coronavirus contact tracing app, we are told by government, is necessary to prevent the spread of the virus and a prerequisite for the lifting of lockdown restrictions. But the deployment of such a digital technology stands along side a whole suite of laws and powers in Australia - put in place since the 9/11 attacks - that encroach on human rights and the workings of democracy. Tim Singleton Norton from Digital Rights Watch explains.