Australia is becoming a surveillance state

Re:Australia is becoming a surveillance state by shric on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:44AM (#28140791)

They'll provide a sheet of paper. For some reason since covid I always forget to bring my phone when going out in Australia

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Re:Australia is becoming a surveillance state by GekkePrutser on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @09:46AM (#28141857)

I will use the paper one too. I don't really trust the app.

With the previous covid detection apps (the covid API from Apple/Google) privacy was really a key design goal and I had no issues using that.

With these new QR apps (the EU CoronaCheck program) there was less of a focus on this. Part of that makes sense, as it's meant to identify the user's status it's not possible to be completely anonymous. But there has hardly been any info on whether the apps phone home. Also, the Apple/Google API apps from each country were almost all open source. None of that now. It's taken for granted that privacy is not a concern anymore, for some reason.

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Re:Australia is becoming a surveillance state by jim-jim-jim on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @08:54AM (#28141423)

I've had good luck asking for paper in Victoria. In Queensland I've just been told to use the app or fuck off.

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