Covid-19 digital tracing app - steady creep of a surveillance state

Monday, 27 April 2020 - 6:00pm to 6:30pm

The roll out of the coronavirus contact tracing app, we are told by government, is necessary to prevent the spread of the virus and a prerequisite for the lifting of lockdown restrictions. But the deployment of such a digital technology stands along side a whole suite of laws and powers in Australia - put in place since the 9/11 attacks - that encroach on human rights and the workings of democracy. Tim Singleton Norton from Digital Rights Watch explains.