Covid Safe App Draft Legislation

Draft legislation. Prior to its introduction into Parliament, we publicly released a draft of the legislation. Contact details. Information Law Unit Information Law and Intelligence Review Response Taskforce Integrity and Security Division Call: 02 6141 6666 Address: 3-5 National Circuit, Barton, ACT 2600

Government releases draft legislation for Covidsafe tracing app to allay privacy concerns. the app will “help us to keep you safe and. they are diagnosed with Covid-19. The draft.

The Federal Government launched the COVIDSafe app in a bid to manage and control the spread of COVID-19 as state and territory governments begin to ease lockdown restrictions. Partners John Gray and Alison Choy Flannigan outline how the app works.

Their decision to download the app was made ahead of the release of the exposure draft legislation to entrench the temporary privacy protections imposed by a special bio-security determination.

New draft COVIDSafe legislation has been unveiled that significantly strengthens privacy safeguards for the contact tracing app, meaning laws against misuse of citizens' data will cover all.

The draft Bill contains a number of important legal protections, including criminal offences regarding misuse of the COVIDSafe App. We support the provisions of the Bill making it illegal to coerce someone to download or use the App, for instance as a condition of employment, or before providing goods or services.

The draft legislation for the government's new COVIDSafe App – billed as the ticket to easing restrictions – has been released as the government works to ease anxieties on behalf of users.

Draft legislation has not yet been published for scrutiny and comment by civil society. It appears the Determination is an attempt to legislate in the interim, due to a rushed deployment of the app to meet an arbitrary deadline before it was fully ready. The reason for rushing to release the app before it was operational is unclear.

The more Australians connect to the COVIDSafe app, the quicker we can find the virus and prevent the spread. The COVIDSafe app is now available in Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Vietnamese. Translated information. Translated information about COVID-19 and the COVIDSafe app is available to download and use:

Part 1 — Preliminary. 1 Name This instrument is the Biosecurity (Human Biosecurity Emergency) (Human Coronavirus with Pandemic Potential) (Emergency Requirements—Public Health Contact Information) Determination 2020.. 2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table.

Background to the proposed legislation. To support the fight against COVID-19, the Federal Government has released the ‘COVIDSafe app’ available for voluntary download on the Android and IOS mobile platforms (the App).See our earlier summary of the App and contract tracing here.. To manage privacy concerns, the Minister for Health; Greg Hunt issued a Determination under the Biosecurity Act.