It Is A Bit Sad That QR Code Based Tracing Apps Do Not Behave As Claimed On The Tin To Totally Protect Privacy.

 A number of States have been exposed as fibbers.

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WA Police accessed COVID check-in app data

Denham Sadler
Senior Reporter

15 June 2021

The Western Australian police twice accessed data from the state’s COVID-19 contact tracing check-in app, forcing the state government to introduce urgent legislation to prevent it happening again.

The WA government confirmed on Tuesday that the state’s police force accessed contact registration information on two occasions while investigating two serious crimes. This was done legally, leading the state government introducing legislation to Parliament to prevent this in the future.

The SafeWA app was launched in December last year, and is mandatory for individuals and a range of businesses, venues and other locations.

Individuals use the SafeWA app to utilise QR codes to check into venues across the state for the purpose of contact tracing. There have since been more than 245 million check-ins using the SafeWA app.

More here:

https://www.innovationaus.com/wa-police-accessed-covid-check-in-app-data/

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Victoria and Qld police can also access COVID app data

Denham Sadler
Senior Reporter

17 June 2021

The Victorian and Queensland state governments have confirmed the police can access data from their respective COVID-19 QR code check-in apps but require a warrant to do so.

The confirmation follows Western Australia introducing urgent legislation to stop police from accessing its own contact tracing service.

Earlier this week it was revealed that the WA Police Force had twice accessed data from the state’s own contact tracing check-in app as part of two criminal investigations. This was done legally, and led the WA government to introduce legislation preventing data from the app to be used for anything other than contact tracing.

It has also been revealed that WA Police accessed information from the G2G pass, used to gain entry in and out of the state, more than a dozen times for criminal investigations.

On Wednesday it was revealed that Victoria Police also have access to the state’s COVID-19 QR code-based check in app. Police in Victoria can access information from this service with a court-issued warrant, government services minister Danny Pearson confirmed.

More here:

https://www.innovationaus.com/victoria-and-qld-police-can-also-access-covid-app-data/

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Agencies getting COVIDSafe data by accident

Denham Sadler
Senior Reporter

17 June 2021

Law enforcement agencies have not accessed or decrypted any data from the federal government’s COVIDSafe app despite sometimes “incidentally” collecting information from it,  the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security has found.

Earlier this week the Western Australian government introduced urgent legislation to prevent the police from being able to access data from its COVID-19 contact tracing check-in app after it was unable to convince them not to.

While this was done legally by the WA Police, the federal government last year passed legislation restricting access to data from its own COVIDSafe contact tracing app for any reasons other than contact tracing by state and territory health authorities.

The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS) was tasked with reporting on how this was being implemented, and its latest six monthly report was released on Thursday as part of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s (OAIC) own report on privacy protections around the app.

More here:

https://www.innovationaus.com/agencies-getting-covidsafe-data-by-accident/

It seems that Government and police simply cannot be trusted to actually do with your data what they claim although it is good to see the WA Government working hard to fix the issue when they were caught / exposed / sprung! Wall done them at the second go!

People will soon stop trusting Government if execution does not match the rhetoric!

David.