CORONAVIRUS | This comes amid concerns that location data may be used by unrelated bodies like law enforcement agencies.
| Australia will make it illegal for non-health officials to access data collected on smartphone software to trace the spread of Covid-19, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday, amid privacy concerns raised by the measure.
The tracing app, which is yet to be released, has raised concerns from legal and privacy advocates who have said the location data it collects may be used by unrelated bodies like law enforcement agencies."It will be illegal for information to go out of that data store to any other person other than that for whom the whole thing is designed, and that is to support the health worker in the state to be able to undertake the contact tracing," he told reporters in Canberra.
With the country's borders closed for weeks, Morrison said the illness was now in its "community phase", which meant the health authorities hoped to slow the spread by widespread testing - even of people without symptoms - and contact tracing.
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