Human rights groups worry data collected by Australian states could be kept for longer than necessary and used for ‘secondary purposes’
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Apps used to ensure overseas arrivals are complying with home quarantine requirements as part of Australia’s opening up need stronger privacy protections, technology and human rights groups have told state and federal health ministers.
As Australia starts opening up to the rest of the world again, states are moving to adopt home quarantine as a less expensive alternative to the hotel quarantine system.
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Originally posted in the guardian.
