The latest assault on nations like Australia is a a "non-compulsory" download of an app for your computer/phone combo to help in the fight to curb the spread of the Chinese Virus. This one action is so Big Brother Totalitarian in its intent it worries me that so many Australian proles have already downloaded it onto their devices.
Below is the rules on Governments use of the data collected via the app:-
What information do you have to provide?
Your name, age range, postcode and mobile phone number.
Can you register with a fake name?
Yes, you can use a pseudonym.
How does it work?
The app is designed to help contact-tracing of coronavirus cases. Using Bluetooth, it will check every minute whether any other phones with the app installed are within 1.5m. If two people with the app are within 1.5m for more than 15 minutes, the phone will swap encrypted details.
What happens if you are diagnosed with COVID-19?
If you are diagnosed, a health official will ask for your consent — via a text message sent with a pin number — to share the last 21 days of contact the app has detected.
Who is the information shared with?
Only state and territory health authorities will be able to access the cloud, decrypt the data and contact those who were in close proximity to the COVID-positive person.
Where is the information stored?
Once consent has been given, the data is stored nationally and then provided to the relevant state officials. The federal government does not see the data at any time.
How long will information be stored for?
All data on the phone is deleted after 21 days. If a person deletes the app, it also deletes the data. And all data sent to the national store will be deleted at the end of the pandemic.
How can you download the app?
Search for “COVIDSafe” on the Google Play Store for Android or App Store for Apple phones.
Lets do a quick analysis of this "request".
1. You MUST provide your name, age range, postcode, and mobile phone number. But you can register with a "fake name" by using a pseudonym.
So you do not have to use your real name, but your phone is registered to someone, and that someone is you, so your real identity details are known by the holder of the data.
2. The stated aim is to allow contact tracing of Covid-19 cases. This means that every phone that has downloaded the app is traced, and that information is stored - forever! Forget about the "if two people with the app are within 1.5m for more than 15 minutes, the phone will swap encrypted details", your phone can be linked to each and every phone that has the app on a database, forget about the 15 minutes, that is a sop and absolute bullshit, they already know where you are via your phone location.
3. What happens if you are diagnosed with Covid-19? A "health official" will contact you requesting you to supply information with your consent about accessing your last 21 days of close contact (i guess this means the 1.5m limit). What a load of horseshit, the "authorities already have the data about your location and everyone else who has downloaded the app. There will never be a need to get your approval for data sharing, it will be shared because of a public health emergency.
4. Only State and Territory health authorities will have access to the "encrypted" data which is stored in the "clouds". This information is stored Nationally, which means that ANY public servant, Federal, State, or Territory can, and will, access this information.
5. The Federal Government (which is the pollies) does not see the data at any time, so what, the public servants, the BUREAUCRATS, get to see and use the data as they see fit.
6. "How long will the information be stored for?" Here is a cracker, data collected has to be organised to provide "information". So if the "information' is deleted, the raw "data" is not so can still be sorted in a different way to provide "different" information.
7. "All data on the phone is deleted after 21 days. If a person deletes the app, it also deletes the data. And all data sent to the national store will be deleted at the end of the pandemic." Another great get out of jail free card, delete the app on your phone and the data on your phone only will also be deleted. But the "national store" also has the "data", which will be deleted, but the INFORMATION will not, so each and every body, Federal, State and Territory will do whatever they want with the information. Remember, the data can be changed so that it does not have to be deleted, the information can be changed so that it does not have to be deleted. And both data and information only need to be deleted if the pandemic ends, which can be never if a bureaucratic organisation decides it to be so.
The wording of the document is most important, this is the old "it's only business" to carry out the most heinous of crimes, the use of your private information. This is dastardly, hypocritical, pernicious and downright deceitful for our elected pollies and our un-elected bureaucrats to engage in such behaviour.
There is a way to evade such a despicable act, leave your mobile at home when you go out. Print you contact list out and carry it with yourself, buy a burner phone from different locations every week, use a "pseudonym" to buy the burner.
Fuck the Government, fuck the public servants, fuck this tyrannical system of abuse.
We, the proles, deserve better.
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