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Re:Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government'... by lysp on Sunday April 26, 2020 @08:55AM (#22986804)
Exactly this.

The Aus Gov - especially the current one is massively lacking in trust.

Encryption laws, metadata laws. Scope creep on metadata access (ie local councils, horse racing bodies). Lack of transparent reporting when these laws are in use.

Raids on journalists.

Not to mention their lack of transparency over bushfires, sports grants, angus taylor's family connections with mining / paying $90m? for water to associated company. Ministers failing to declare gifts granted by airlines because they fell into previous parliament and not current one. Climate change vs mining interests. Loading the grid management team so they simply push renewables down the road instead of taking action to get wind/solar take up.

Marking spin vs real substance in every single press conference from all the top federal ministers.

The PM waiting for states to take charge of quarantine measures so he didn't get the blame for bringing those in (and get bad PR) early in the covid-19 crisis before we knew how bad it was. School closures. Ruby Princess.

So after all that they want to trust us with an privacy breaching app because it's the right thing to do?

I wouldn't install a hello-world built by current government even if my life depended on it.

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Re:Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government'... by NewLogic on Sunday April 26, 2020 @09:19AM (#22986931)
To put it in words they will understand "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear"
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Re:Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government'... by ifthenorelse on Monday April 27, 2020 @02:45AM (#22993492)
Agreed -- trust has to be earned, but definitely hasn't been. Quite the opposite. I thought it was very unfortunate that the Australian Nurses' Association was asked to provide their endorsement of the government BS spin at the launch of the app. Wasn't surprised that the AMA did though. The promotional video is hilarious -- indistinguishable from an episode of "Utopia" -- LOL.
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Re:Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government'... by pfortuny on Sunday April 26, 2020 @12:49PM (#22988362)
You may be right (probably are, as I am from Spain).

But you should not focus on this specific government: the dangers of overstepping are great whatever the color or the chirality or even the deeds of a government.

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Re:Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government'... by FridgeSeal on Sunday April 26, 2020 @05:16PM (#22990339)
On the contrary o think we should very much be focusing g on this government: Peter Dutton in particular has pushed repeatedly for increasingly authoritarian measures.

I’m super cautious about handing over data or enabling him at all.

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Re:Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government'... by eskaytwo on Sunday April 26, 2020 @05:39PM (#22990500)
This specific government are the ones releasing the app and telling people to “trust us”.
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Re:Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government'... by hamlsandwich on Monday April 27, 2020 @09:20PM (#23002276)
I know what you're saying, but we _also_ need to focus on this specific government, because they make the situation bad from the get-go, rather than just potentially bad.
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