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Mandatory record-keeping: Should we be concerned about privacy?
Nine To Noon
English - September 02, 2021 21:05 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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From next Tuesday everyone over the age of 12 will be required to keep a record of every "busy place or event" they've been to. The move is to combat low levels of scanning or signing in outside of a Covid outbreak and help assist with contact tracing. But with the big increase in information about to be gathered - what are the privacy protections in place? That's something of concern to Dr Andrew Chen, a Research Fellow at Koi Tu: The Centre for Informed Futures, at The University of Auckland. He's written an open letter to Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins asking for legislation to clarify that data collected for contact tracing purposes will ONLY be used for contact tracing purposes.