Police access to COVID check-in data is an affront to our privacy. We need stronger and more consistent rules in place
- Written by Graham Greenleaf, Professor of Law and Information Systems, UNSW
The Australian Information Commissioner this week called for a ban on police accessing QR code check-in data, unless for COVID-19 contact tracing purposes.
State police have already accessed this data on at least six occasions for unrelated criminal investigations, including in Queensland and Western Australia — the latter of which has now...
