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 September 6, 2021  Posted by  Healthcare, Non-U.S., Surveillance

Anthony Galloway reports:

The nation’s privacy watchdog has called for police forces to be banned from accessing information from QR code check-in applications after law enforcement agencies have sought to use the contact-tracing data on at least six occasions to solve unrelated crimes.

There are also growing calls from backbench MPs and civil liberties groups to phase out the compulsory check-in applications once the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is over.

Read more on the Sydney Morning Herald.

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