Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Police access to COVID check-in data is an affront to our privacy. We need stronger and more consistent rules in place

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par Graham Greenleaf, Professor of Law and Information Systems, UNSW
Katharine Kemp, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW, UNSW

The Australian Information Commissioner this week called for a ban on police accessing QR code check-in data, unless for COVID-19 contact tracing purposes.

State police have already accessed this data on at least six occasions for unrelated criminal investigations, including in Queensland and Western Australia — the latter of which has now banned this. Victorian police also attempted access at least three times, according to

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