COVIDSafe App and human rights

Briefing note by Johanna Lawlor and Leanne Ho. Digital Rights Watch and Wotton + Kearney. August 31, 2020.

Briefing note by Johanna Lawlor and Leanne Ho. Digital Rights Watch and Wotton + Kearney.

August 31, 2020.

The processes around the introduction, launch and use of the COVIDSafe app have exposed a number of issues with the frameworks that safeguard human rights in Australia. The processes that led to its introduction, the changes the government was compelled to implement and the permanent change in the way future governments may approach electronic tracing will long outlive the virus itself.

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