To enable Australia to ease our lockdown restrictions, the government has released the COVIDSafe App. The more Aussies who install the app, the better our chances of more freedom of movement.
The app allows tracking of covid cases a lot more effectively than is occurring at the moment. The image below explains how it works…
You register your name (or pseudonym), age range, postcode and phone number, turn on bluetooth and that’s it. Simple.
I hope all Aussies who have a phone download the app. We’re all in this together.
What is your country doing to help control the spread of covid?
May 7, 2020 at 9:26 pm
I think this is a good idea. However I can already hear North Americans (especially those south of the Canadian border) screaming about their rights, invasion of privacy etc. This pandemic has really highlighted for me the downside of the American cult of individual rights and freedoms above all else. It is disgusting what some Americans are doing right now with respect to armed protests of lock-down orders.
I’d download that app. I have nothing to hide.
Deb
May 9, 2020 at 8:26 am
It’s a pretty safe app in terms of privacy, but I can imagine there would be a bigger outcry in the US than here.
May 7, 2020 at 9:44 pm
Wow that seems cool! But what about people in the same house? What if the barbarians had phones and were beside each other playing video games for an afternoon with their phones right there? How does that work? Lol it seems interesting!
May 9, 2020 at 8:32 am
If you are in the same house then your phone just records it was close to their phone. It’s like they descirbe it – a handshake. Your phone just records it was near their phone for more than 15 mins. Doesn’t affect anything. If you or a family member contract covid, then when the message is sent out you get it as well.
May 9, 2020 at 8:35 am
Oooooooooo okies! Thats amazing then! I like it
May 8, 2020 at 12:56 am
Oh if it was only about “privacy rights”. But right now, a serial criminal [let’s use car thief because that was in the news this week] steals a car, gets caught, arrested, and immediately released, because pandemic. Less than an hour later, he does it again, and again caught and released. And yes, a third time, caught and released. Then, in the same week, we have a small business owner who opens her business, with protocols for social distancing, even tho it’s not considered “essential”. Not only is her business forcibly closed, she’s arrested and NOT immediately released. A man was forcibly thrown out of a bus, causing injury, because he wasn’t wearing a face covering. Wouldn’t it have been much easier to just give him a face covering? A black man was jogging ALONE, and he was shot and killed.
“It’s for your own good” was used by Hitler to kill millions of people. There are always those who will take advantage of a situation including, unfortunately, some of the ones who are supposed to be protecting and serving.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. If it was only about privacy rights, we’d have a different discussion. But as of now, there is no way I’d download that app.
May 9, 2020 at 8:37 am
Dena, there’s nothing that can be done with this app. Besides the fact there has been legislation put in place specifically regarding this app and the use of data, the phone doesn’t record anything personal and it doesn’t record your location (in fact, I have location turned off on my phone and the app works).
You can use a pseudonym and only have to tick an age range, and all the data is encrypted. No-one actually sees or uses the data. If someone contracts covid, the health workers use that person’s phone number to alert the system to send a message to anyone who has that handshake on their phone and they receive a text message.
There is nothing in this app that would give anyone anything. No power to be had.
May 8, 2020 at 6:51 am
That looks like a great app. That would be great if we could have something like that here.
What is my gov’t doing? Enriching themselves. Trying to kill as many people as possible. Alas, this is nothing new…
May 9, 2020 at 8:39 am
I’m really happy we’ve got it. It’s the only reason the government has instigated its 3 step plan to return to something close to normal. In a sign of exciting times, as of today, we’re allowed to meet in groups of up to 10 people both inside and outside (as long as you maintain 1.5m distance and inside have 4 square metres per person).