Prime Minister Morrison has spoken of the need for a tracking phone app, to help the government trace people who may have been infected with COVID-19.
The PM is refusing to rule out the app being made compulsory on your phones.
The privacy implications of this are frightening.
This app would create a record of your movements “in the real world” including everywhere you go, everyone you meet and how long you were in contact with each person.
One Nation opposes this measure and calls on Prime Minister Morrison to guarantee that should this app be rolled out it will never be made compulsory and if voluntarily installed by a user, will contain enforceable safety provisions.
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I just heard something very, very dangerous. Brian Carlton on Triple M, interviewed the Prime Minister. Pretty good interview, until around about the sixth minute to the ninth minute.
Three times, Brian Carlton asked the Prime Minister if he would make the app for tracing people on their phones with regard to the virus, compulsory. Three times, the Prime Minister refused to rule it out.
That’s not on! This is Australia. Secondly, what would be the penalty if someone refused to join the app? Would they be denied certain services? Would they be fined? In Singapore, where they already have the app, it’s voluntary.
Only 20% of people have taken it up. People are well and truly capable of making up their own damn mind about whether or not it’s needed. People are also remindful of Cambridge Analytica, data security and privacy issues.
Each of us should decide who looks over our shoulder into our lives, because as George Washington said, the first president of the United States, “Government is a fearful master and a dangerous servant.”
We have to watch them the whole time. Something about the human condition, give someone power and they want it all. We’re watching. Because this is an opportunity with this COVID virus, to run roughshod over people.
We’re gonna be watching to make sure that we have all of our freedoms and rights restored, once this is over.
Thanks for explaining about the app Malcolm we are lucky to have you and Pauline looking out for the people ,i enjoy reading your posts , thank you once again.
100% in agreement with you on the topic of a tracing app. The whole idea is sinister. We need to get governments out of our lives. As for this daft lock down it makes my blood boil.