At what point will you read something about monitoring for COVID-19 that will just cross whatever line you have for being unacceptable surveillance? Joe Cadillic writes: All across the country, law enforcement is using the pandemic as an excuse to use Chinese-made drones to monitor the public. Which breaks EVERY promise law enforcement has ever…
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UK COVID-19 contact-tracing app data may be kept for ‘research’ after crisis ends, MPs told
Gareth Corfield reports: Britons will not be able to ask NHS admins to delete their COVID-19 contact-tracking data from government servers, digital arm NHSX’s chief exec Matthew Gould admitted to MPs this afternoon. Gould also told Parliament’s Human Rights Committee that data harvested from Britons through NHSX’s COVID-19 contact tracing app would be “pseudonymised” –…
AU: Jail terms for those who breach COVID app privacy law
David Crowe reports: Tougher privacy laws will be put to Parliament next week in a bid to jail anyone who breaches the safeguards in the federal government’s new coronavirus tracing app, with police and security agencies exposed to the sanctions. Access to the highly sensitive data will be restricted to state health agencies and those…
Singapore to require smartphone check-ins at all businesses and will log visitors’ national identity numbers
Simon Sharwood reports: Singapore will from May 12th require all businesses to adopt a system that checks visitors into and out of their premises using their smartphones, and has already made using the system compulsory before entering some venues. Called “SafeEntry”, the system is designed to enhance Singapore’s coronavirus contact-tracing capabilities and requires visitors to…