I'd prefer an ankle tag: why home quarantine apps are a bad idea

By Toby Walsh, Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, UNSW

South Australia has begun a trial of a new COVID app to monitor arrivals into the state. SA Premier Steven Marshall claimed “every South Australian should feel pretty proud that we are the national pilot for the home-based quarantine app”.

He then doubled down with the boast that he was “pretty sure the technology that we have developed within the South Australia government will become the national standard and will be rolled out across the country.”

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