Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by Nursie on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:34AM (#28454224)

The app is entirely voluntary. Quarantine is not.

Effectively you get to choose -

  1. Stay in a quarantine centre for two weeks under guard (which you pay for)

  2. Quarantine at home with police visits

  3. As above but check in with the app

In that context, getting pissed off about the app is ridiculous.

You want to argue quarantine is unnecessary or wrong? Go for it, make those arguments. But what you’re doing is pissing and moaning about the easiest and least intrusive option. It’s not a good look.

As someone who is coming to the end of two weeks in a quarantine centre (actually a Novotel, and there’s no app or home quarantine for international arrivals), that app option looks mighty good. And as I am about to enter a state with no coronavirus, quarantine is looking like it’s been a great plan.

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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by tgsovlerkhgsel on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:14AM (#28454811)

> 2. Quarantine at home with police visits

Is this an official option, or do you have to install the app then turn your phone off, with the potential of this turning to 1 if they don't like you doing that too often?

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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by Nursie on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:17AM (#28454824)

I believe this is an official option, at least in WA where there is already an app, it's up to you which option to take.

AFAICT there is no "we're sick of visiting you, off to a quarantine centre" potential at all, effectively you're doing them a favour by using the app, the default would be police visits.

Unless you're found to have breached quarantine the conditions I guess. Not sure what happens then.

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