Is It Time To Retire The COVIDSafe App? The Question Really Needs To Be Asked!

These two articles appeared last week: First we had: The COVIDSafe app is just another expensive fail by Sonia Hickey | Jun 1, 2021 | Digital, Featured, Ladder | This week, Victoria ’s health minister openly mocked the COVIDSafe app. With the program still costing $100,000 a month, the joke is on us. There has been a litany of problems with the Government’s app, leading many to question whether the millions of taxpayer dollars spent has been worth it. There were initial con cerns about the collection and use of data and privacy, and given the great failure that was the 2016 online Census and the widescale privacy breaches associated with My Health Record, these concerns certainly continue. Then there were the hoax messages that the Australian Federal Police were called to investigate after many users reported receiving a text when they were further than 20 kilometres from home. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that an early version of the app... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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