Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

Re:Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking... by shkkmo on Sunday September 12, 2021 @09:10PM (#28506787)

Up until now you had no choice, when returning to Australia you had to pay to stay in a 2 week quarantine hotel.

Creating an alternative solution for home quarantine gives people more options.

You could argue that there was a better way to implement home quarantine. You could argue that the 2 week quarantine is goverment overreach. You could even argue that this option helps the government keep the 2 week quarantine in place longer by tempering its severity.

I don't see those sorts of rational arguments. I see a bunch of people making an irrational or uninformed argument that this extends government overreach by making the 2 week quarantine rule more severe.

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Re:Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking... by smylie on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:19PM (#28507538)

I don't think you can argue with this subset of americans on this. I tried when this came up on hacker news last week, and they were adamant this was worse that going into a hotel, and that australians citizens were sleep walking into a totalitarian state for allowing this to happen. (And also that they only had second amendment rights like the USA this would never be allowed to happen).

It was a bit of a wake up call actually - the level of conversation was starting to feel more like reddit than what I'd always (until now i guess) expected from hacker news.

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