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New program tracks quarantining Australians via app, requires selfies for proof

Posted on October 8, 2021June 24, 2025 by Dissent

Alec Schemmel reports:

 Australia’s second-most populous state, Victoria, has begun piloting a home quarantine tracking program that randomly calls those quarantining at home and requests a selfie from them within five minutes in order to track their location via GPS.

Read more on KATV.

h/t, Joe Cadillic, who was probably as apoplectic as I was reading this one.

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