The WA parliament is rushing through legislation this week to make sure the Covid safe app has the privacy safeguards Western Australians assumed it already had. It was only when police used to to trace witbneses to a crime that the public became aware of the loophole that would make their data accessible to third parties. The problem of different states having different apps has led to calls for a national audit.
Produced By: Annie Hastwell
Featured In Story: Tama Leavey, Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
First aired on The Wire, Thursday, 17 June 2021