Coronavirus mobile tracking app may be mandatory if not enough people sign up, Scott Morrison says

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Mobile phone tracking software could become compulsory if not enough Australians voluntarily download the application to help in coronavirus case tracing.

if not enough Australians voluntarily download the application to help in coronavirus case tracing.

It would allow contact tracers to have information immediately rather than waiting hours or even days as they currently do. Labor leader Anthony Albanese - who found out about the app in the newspaper - is concerned about the prospect of forcibly being tracked. "It's up to the government, frankly, to explain exactly what it has in mind with this app and to be very clear with the Australian public about whether it is going to be voluntary or whether it is going to be some level of compulsion involved."The app is being developed based on a Singaporean version, TraceTogether.

 

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Does it include a new smartphone because I don't own one. I don't get why why people feel the need to pay for a service so people can annoy you anywhere any time then fill it with personal information so you can be tracked and stalked by...well...anyone. (Government)

Maybe in his wildest prayers?!

Imagine that... the constant bashing over China's surveillance system.. but alas Scumo is suggesting it too. Can all the racist libtards bash their own PM now?

You want me to download the app? OK. You will force me to download the app? I'll take the penalty thanks.

Govt Coronavirus app ... yes please ... oh wait a minute ... contact 15 mins that is wrong ... needs just contact ... app needs an update before release. For confirming info from Health ...

'Citizen, this app is voluntary for you to download but if you don't voluntarily download it, I will force you to.' Orwell would be turning over in his grave.

Scamdemic. All part of the plan and being rolled out beautifully

If this is the case, watch me never use my phone again. I’m not joking.

What a shame. My phone just fell into a drain.

If you're willing to surrender your civil liberties to this degree because you are unable or unwilling to track who you interacted with for 14 days... then I don't know what to say...

Once politicians realise their movements will have to be traced and made publicly available they will bin this idea.

Like hell it will be!

No way ScottMorrisonMP what is the real agenda?

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What if you don't own a mobile?

ScottMorrisonMP no chance mate.

If the tyrannical Australian government makes this voluntary tracking app mandatory, I'm going to voluntarily cancel my mobile contract and get a dumbphone. Fuck them.

Not a chance ScoMo. NO, NO, and No x 20 million + people will be your answer. Why not invest big money into the vaccine, whatever it takes. It's all about money today, so if you can be first with the vaccine, just imagine the money you could make! 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

They would have to make smart phone ownership compulsory first. Hope they will be supplying them because mine will keep getting lost in the river.

nuremburgcode

All thoses who voted LNP in could agree to download the tracking ap, that should make the 40% needed.

Remember that whether this government location tracking app is mandatory or not it'll stick around permanently long after covid19 is gone.

cambridge analytica

Does anyone know how much was spent on making this app?

Watch scomo in his career change SCOMO Career change? FIFA 2020: FIFA 20 EP 1

Yeah, nah

GET LOST ScottMorrisonMP

ScottMorrisonMP all repatriated Australians should be obliged to install the mobile tracking app when coming back home.

Full communist society

SBS lefty media..... wrong again. Imagine our shock. Oh well worded for the idiots who follow you.... 'could' being the get-out from your sensationalist nonsense.

This surely is a joke!!!! Looks like Scotty from marketing has lost the plot!! There is no marketing campaign that will convince Aussies to do this!!

You never asked me..

To the people with location turned on in your mobile phone you had better switch that off now. Also get bogus ATO and bank accounts, passport, drivers licence, car registration, Medicare card and Centrelink cards where applicable. Otherwise you can be located.

No more big brother than many other modern processes. It’s honestly in everyone’s best interest to accept a way to monitor the killer Wuhan Coronavirus! It’s Australian civic duty not big brother. Wake up folks! Lefties brainwashing you.

I’m cancelling my phone - will the gov be prepared to buy me a new one.

I’ll give up holding a phone to avoid that

woollogirl In Singapore that just hired ppl to track and trace, unemployment so high why can't that become a job

GeorgeBakhos1 It’s not happening, PM as aid so today, not compulsory.

The LNP Because Ignorance is Strength Download the app TrackingAPP Scomotose QuietAustralians

With this government’s record how could anyone trust them

I will turn off my mobile during trips outside home if that is the case. I don't want another data harvesting by the Chinese companies like the one with My Health Records. Compulsory tracking people is tyrannic and unwarranted. The ones at highest risk will behave for sure.

And so the totalitarian agenda is revealed! Hitler and Stalin could only dream of this...my grandfather fought on the beaches of Normandy for this?

Smells like a class action suit to me!

That’s a huge no from me. And if it gets put through via our carriers I’ll be leaving my phone at home. I’m sure there are some lawyers out there ready to take this one on!!

You think that's creepy look at Microsoft's new patent. Mining Crypocurrency with you mind and body. Patent No. 060606 Can't make this shit up. After forced vaccinations and digital ID from Gates this is coming, Beyond creepy.

Reading these comments, this is the most united I have seen Aussies in years. Left and right both sticking up for our freedoms. We need to wake up to the divide and conquer strategy, race, gender and idealogical trivialities. If both sides agree they have no option but to listen

This is a war to another specie(Covid-19 virus) We have to treat it different to normal days. Otherwise we will lose our loved ones/health/life/job/income etc. we give up some freedom and privacy SHORT term so we can have our normal life back sooner!

Options: 1. Get a pinephone or SailfishOS as there will only be Android and ios apps. Pinephone has hardware kill switches also. 2. Install a custom ROM eg LineageOS so tracking can be disabled.

I think people need to do some research on what the app actually does before going off about it.

If we don’t do this, the virus will be out of control again and people we care could die! Maybe ourselves! This is a the only way we can track the virus and keep our jobs and income!

Forced lock down then fined if you don't, forced apps on you ,fined if u don't get it . What next forcing you to spend money in retail, fined if u don't, speaking your mind (freedom of speech) fined if u do?

Nope won't be doing this, they can't treat me like I love in China

Scotty is from marketing u know

Hell no!

Watch them make it compulsory with social security payments.

This is one time I’ll go with herd immunity. Let the herd get the app and I’ll be immune!

Many, if not most, Apps have been tracking your location, contacts, media etc for years and you've all survived so far. What happened to 'We are all in this together ', was it just rhetoric?

Smartphones can be tracked already and you don't even need to have your GPS activated. Dozens of apps get permissions when you download them allowing tracking therefore you can only assume that a Govt owned one will have other hidden nasties built into theirs

If the purpose of the app is explained properly and appropriate safeguards are included, the public will respond appropriately.

Won't need to be compulsory. People need to understand the power of big data. Two data points - or better two data flows, and you're beginning to get a picture. Decent by 10%, good by 20, 25%. By 60% ...

mcannonbrookes what do you make of this plan?

Which master are you taking orders from Scotty? Whose agenda are you furthering here? More control. More surveillance. 1984

Nope, not happening!!

It's impossible. Old people don't carry mobile phones. Mobile phones don't have the battery life (my $50 android certainly doesn't). Legislation required (see you in court scumo). Policing?

Need to campaign hard against this one guys RobbieBarwick adamseconomics CitizensPartyAU

That's a big no from me.

I would go to court to challenge the law as being nreasonable and an unnecessary invasion of privacy even in light of covid-19. They do that sort of shit in China. My father was in WW2 to fight for our freedom, I wont let his efforts be lost to a draconian PM.

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I smell a Rat and not alone in this thought either. This is boarding Fascism. Not a hope in hell I would be having this. If it became compulsory. I wouldn't take my phone out with me or I would just toss it. I never liked them anyway. This is straight out of Orwell's 1984.

If we are only supposed to be going outside for exercise and groceries why do we need to be tracked?

Contact tracing of positive COVID-19 cases is conducted by Public Health Officials. Do they need more staff? Asymptomatic infectious people & people not tested will not change, the app only tracks positive cases. Laws for mandatory quarantine of COVID cases, systems are working.

RockinRobyn48 I only go out for a daily walk or occasional shopping in rural area I live so why would I give that govt any info about me no need to at all. Do not Trust LNP ever.

Fourth Reichstag in Canberra wants wants total tracking whilst they secretly create policy to destroy IR at the same time.

Sales of Nokia 3310’s suddenly go through the roof.

Ha ha ha ha ha!!!! Wow. The pace of the match to full dictatorship is swift.

He can get fucked.

Fk that

If this pandemic caused MyGov to fall over and then Centrelink Website to fail because prior uptake was relatively low, due to a 'can't be bothered' attitude, why is this app going to be any different? Based on prior experience of govt IT, it will be leaky bug filled rubbish

Will the app simply become a modern day triangle? Scary for those that know the real power of identification. Lest we forget.

StephMcLennan turn your cell phone off when you are not using it.

Big Brother 1984.

This is really poor communication. I DO want to know if I’ve been in contact with a case, but making it compulsory will just piss people off. Anyone with a smartphone, store, credit card, a car or social media account is being tracked ALL the time (and not anonymously either).

BackStabbingSmirkingBibleBashingTotalFuckwit

NEVER

Switch to aeroplane mode when leaving home

Take a lesson from India. Ghandi . Passive disobedience .

An APP sits on your phone not on the SIM card so people can just have a second cheaper phone to put SIM card in for calls while they’re out.

Arbitrary authoritarianism is arbitrary.

1. End parliament. 2. Spy on entire population. 3.encourage neighbours to dob in. Where did we hear of this before? Oh yes. Bolshevik Russia.

No.

ScottMorrisonMP is about to witness the left & right merge into one formidable force to counter insane government tyranny imposed on the public due to COVID19! Instead of taking action against China, the LiberalAus is turning into the Chinese Communist Party! auspol

ScottMorrisonMP JoshFrydenberg DanielAndrewsMP JennyMikakos IMHO this technology is a breach and intrusion and it won’t keep people safe. It could harm and cause antisocial behaviour. It’s an election loser and it should be considered as this. Imho lead to prosecutions.

Let's just go ahead and pair all of our Bluetooth devices to the Australian Signals Directorate, ASIO and the AFP

Yeah. No thanks. Giving Dutton even more access to our lives? Get fucked.

A gateway to even more surveillance of the population. Along with all the information this government has on every Australian, a complicit media and bolstered meta data farming, we are looking at a fascist regime seeking full control of its citizens.

Oh great... It's Howard's 'Do Not Call' register all over again. Only this time it's 100% of the adult population that will get hacked instead of just a few poor bastards getting unsolicited cold calls.

fuck this cunt enough warnings over the years prefered to line his and his mates own pockets instead of doing his job now we have to give away our rights for a cheap tic toc tec instead of investing in a decent reality

Shove it where the sun don't shine

No way F O M !

Why can't users location data be stored locally on their device. If someone tests positive to Covid-19 their location data for the past 2 weeks is uploaded, cross matched with users data and those with proximity notified by auto message to get tested.

Dictatorship much

I’ve only got a work phone sorry.

So shouldn't we use this technology and make it compulsory to criminals and child sex offenders How can they go Scott free and we all have to be tracked?

cant make it mandatory if you dont own a smart phone...

So you're saying it is compulsory. 'If not enough voluntarily download it we will make it a law' is the most authoritarian thing I've heard today

Or simply provide an anonymous device to individuals, and buzz them when a contact trace identifies a likely contact. Small bluetooth devices that aren't tied to an identity.

Yer I wear a mussel it suits me better, but owe that’s another story.....

Weren’t there a few countries in the late 30s that tracked citizens movements? We’re these the same countries that performed the most extreme human rights abuses in the last century? But of course ScottMorrisonMP is right as any other fundamental god botherer.

They can just faaaaaarrrrrrkkk orf. I will turn my phone off. I am not going to be tracked any more that I already am.

Is that legal? How does that fit with our constitution? Surely he’s having a moses moment?

You paying attention Canada? Aussies seem to still have some independent spirit.

This is 1984 big brother shit

Tracking technology made in china, using Chinese made phones, what a joke.

The way to protect vulnerable people is for GP's not to take over public car parks without proper signage or organization of patients. It's all about the $$$

Chinese track their citizens too, they must be mocking us as our governments act llke communist parties in the name of health.

Get stuffed ScottMorrisonMP

He'll make it if you don't download app,your cut off benefits. Assholes

This makes me Fucking angry.

Yes so we will all leave the phone at home then. What a crock of dogs 💩

What if you don’t have a phone?

What can we as individuals do to stand up to this? ScoMo says most of us are doing the right thing, we have PROVEN we can be trusted, why won't the government trust us a little?

BIG BROTHER IS HERE

Basically it’s mandatory either way then.

What’s gonna happen when people stop carrying phones?

No

The smirk is winning ScottyFromHillsong

Out with the SIM card.

So l either (a) turn off all app access to my location; (b) turn off Bluetooth which the app needs, (c) turn off my phone when l’m not using it or (d) simply delete the app? If our CrimeMinister was more like jacindaardern and less like the Mango Mussolini we’d be more willing

Over my dead body!!

If all LNP voters sign up for it, there’s no problem.

Pffff .... That really is going too far. No way! If this is what Scott Morrison's government is proposing/threatening, it can go get fucked, and that's long overdue.

How will they force us....March in to our homes in their jack Boots ...or🤔

To download the application just dial 0400fascism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How much more of the dismantling of Australia's democracy are people going to fucking tolerate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! auspol fascism treason

Easy, they'll just cut people's welfare!

If my burner phone gets 中文 Bat AIDS do I need to quarantine?

🤣

Every cloud hey SCOMO!

I don’t think so ScottMorrisonMP Please don’t make us feel like we are in a police state.

wtf?! ScottyFomMarketing is turning towards fascism now

No.

I've started leaving the house without my phone. Life is great without a stalker.

Are you going to call out the crimeminister on this bullshit of an excuse to track our movements? Sorry, that’s a no from me

As an ex-Pentecostal, I recognise this “app” as the mark of the Beast, as foretold in the book of Revelations. Imagine they are going apeshit at the moment in Hillsong.

Scott Hitler can POQ.

Already happening in Russia so looks like Oz is fast becoming a communist state

Mmm democracy 😑

ScottMorrisonMP I’m not allowed to have my phone on my person while working (cashier) and the only time I’m out of my house aside from work is the walk to and from my workplace to my car. This app will do nothing for my or others health and safety.

What happens if you crush your phone with a hammer?

They knew about an entire cruise ship full of covid19 victims and let them disembark. What good is a tracking app going to do?

Like Turnbull said, he’s a control freak - no one likes your app dude

My phone doesn’t support App because it’s an old model duh

So how's all the conspiracy theory labelers going now. Your not fucking free and when they get a ' vaccine ' you'll probably be forced to have it or lose all access to jobs, entitlements ' dole' , health benefits etc etc. This is not a scare campaign, more like sheeple sign up...

Australians must stand in firm resistance to this technology. For once implemented all freedom will be lost. Hold your leaders accountable!

but seventy percent believe he is doing a wonderful job , i doubt if those still waiting drought relief, or fire relief believe it,

No hope !

Communist Party of Australia (CPA) has a nice ring to it I guess

Nope.

I just downloaded it

FUCK THIS

All lib voters should be made to download this

Will they take people to court if they don't download that app? Headline implies threat

Um.....no!

Do Not Comply

Time to revolt!

He’s kidding, Hawke couldn’t even get a card through parliament to allow welfare, health and identification. This has no chance.

I’ll gladly sit in prison before you take away my right of choice.

You’ve done a good job so far Scomo but don’t stuff it up with this Police State idea.🤔

tell the big kid schoolnerds to pharq off ...

Not in my lifetime

Fine. They can buy me a smartphone then.

Some people seem to hover in an alternative reality. Voluntary by definition excludes mandatory. Planet earth calling...

Dystopian orwellian stuff of nightmares

Big Brother is looming. Go ahead, download the app. Then leave your phone facing the room screen. Maintain the attitude.

We want volunteers... you, you and you.

Taking away our privacy and dignity 😠 You are the one that needs a tracking device then we could all of seen you jump on that aeroplane to Hawaii when your country was on fire!! 😡

'...compulsory if not enough Australians voluntarily ...'

But, according to the LNP government, we are flattening the curve, they are working on ways to lessen restrictions. Why then would you make this app something that you have no choice in. Deeply suspicious of their motives.

This seems legal 🤡

Yeah, good luck with that.

If there's a chance it would become compulsory then it was never voluntary to begin with. Your authoritarian megalomania only fosters discontent. How much more will your people put up with before you face your undoing, I wonder?

Then I would simply turn my phone off. I did without having it attached to my hip before & can do it again. I’ll leave it at home, it isn’t vital to me. I have wifi at home for other devices.

This gov would use the app to catch all sources who speak to journalists.

Simple solution then is get rid of all your smart tech and phones, or tell the the government to go stick it where it really hurts as this is just b******t!

Why stop there? I say introduce social credits and cameras at every corner to track every citizen’s movements

Get stuffed, how about we all get rid of our phones

I will not download this tracker. My privacy is important.

Time to roll back to Nokia N95

I will happily let him access my meta data for the past fortnight if i test positive. Thats it, that's all they need.

Even singapore has not gone this far and they are nearly a one party system

Going to make me own & carry my phone everywhere are you? Appalling!

wide_geo comunist

Yeah nahhh!

Fascism.

And that’s what will start the revolution. Try something else Scotty

Big brother. Big consequences!

Yeah, sure it is. Slow news day?

Some 1984 shit right here

If this happens-we loose our freedom completely

Screw. That.

I think Canberrans should take their daily walk around Parliament House tomorrow. 1.5m apart of course and definitely not as an organised group protest.

I really don't see the problem. Most people will have shared their credit cards with scammers already anyway... get real people. If it's what it takes to get some freedom I have no problem.

Don't have a phone, no worries, free iPhone for everyone!

Here we go I feel this could be the beginning of a number of changes

That's Inconstitutional

There are a few of us who don’t use mobile phones. How will you trace us?

This is a violation of rights & cannot be permitted to be introduced. Borders need to be strengthened, biosecurity, mandatory quarantine for arrivals. Inside Aust the curve needs to be smashed & Aust kept virus free. Greens PaulineHansonOz RealBobKatter JacquiLambie smh

Talk about looking for something to pass the blame onto... turd

Well thats ridiculous!!! We live in a rural black spot, so how the hell will you be able to trace US!!!!!

Time to get back on the burner, no apps on that 😁

Google has been tracking us for years .. Always switch off your location

No thanks

On that NBN connections needed for all the StayAtHome Homeschooling2020 COVID19 Students; Telstra bill me for an NBN connection but their App tells me I’m still only getting ADSL2 connection ! sbsnews DanTehan

Yeah good luck with that...

Why does the media ALWAYS back them in to a corner? It’s not your job to force extreme policy it’s your job to report the god damn news. The government is developing an app that will reduce inaccuracy, slowness + cost of contact tracing. Full fucking stop.

This has little to do with what you say. It’s the beginning of total control of the masses.

So will they buy me the latest iPhone if I don’t have a mobile

I would think the majority of people would be happy to install a sensible properly secured app in order to do their part in protecting our community. Making it compulsory will only make people suspicious leading to everyone traveling around with their phone switched off.

So...is he testing everyone? Isn’t that the only way to get reliable data on which this app operates? 🤨

Wow! 😳

How? If the govt can force a tracking app on you, what else can they do?

Fine me....the government shouldn’t have the right to force me to forego my rights in a democracy

'The app will use Bluetooth to see what phones your phone has been near at any point in time' Doesn't bluetooth have security problems?

Really. I don't think so!

Yes and they were actually promoting it on BTN kids news break tonight! Appalling!

Come and fucking get me!

Yeah, nah

Compulsory? What exactly in the feds field of thinking is the stick that would enforce the compulsory application of an app nobody know anything about let alone if it works? And while we are talking, who makes it, how was it field tested and how much does it cost taxpayers?

I still use an iPhone 5C - its a piece of $hit now - good luck with downloading any App (it barely receives text messages). Looking forward to Morrison buying me a new iphone and paying for a plan.

I don’t think that’s a great way to win hearts and minds Nobody likes to be bullied They should explain how it works- the limited use of the data and how much quicker it will lift restrictions safely

Well that's one way to ensure we don't use it.

My gps is always off alternatively, I stop using smartphone... Good idea?

Nope.

GOD given Right-Intrinsic Right.The inherent rights of man.Everyone comes into the world with a right2 his own person,which includes the liberty of moving&using it at his own will.This is personal liberty&is given him by the Author of Nature, its necessary for his own sustenance

I bet the smartphone industry likes the sound of that. Governments making the products less attractive to take with you due to tracking.

Bs

It's not voluntary if people are going to be forced to do it if they don't volunteer, what the fuck?

Are we allowed to used the eff off word when replying to Her Morrison . What is this, a dictatorship

Here is to Scott Morrison 🖕 with his mandatory tracking app

Simply microchip everyone in / entering Aus and immediately upon birth. Everyone covered & complete Big Brother info available to all and sundry as system will be hacked, abused & misused. Think I'll just shoot myself before Scott Jong-un is crowned as Dictator of Australia.

It’s a violation of civil liberties to make it compulsory.

I’ll throw my phone down the shitter before I’ll download the app

Well in that case I guess I will download the software and leave the phone at home,

U reckon, good luck 🖕

NO WAY 40% Will download it. Only 20% did this in Singapore. And that Govt is more Trustworthy than a 🇦🇺 LNP. The record is Shocking, look at RoboDebt and an Idiot Minister. Will throw the mobile away 1st

I mean, it’s current policy in our household to leave phones at home when leaving due to potential for contamination (& I can’t imagine we’re the only ones). So not sure how this app really helps contact tracing (I do understand how it impacts right to privacy though)

I will be using the app. If I save one life it’s worth it.

What a cockhead.

This white elephant didn’t work in Singapore. Only people quarantined in Taiwan were provided with a tracking device.

Only if app tracks happyclapper sloganbogan pentacultist televangelist preachy puppet PM’s so I can avoid him. This is result of government with trust & Accountability problem. coronavirus

I think I just lost my phone.

SOUNDS LIKE MORRISON WANTS TO BE A DICTATOR AND NOT A CHRISTIAN PRIME MINISTER HE IS SHOWING HIS REAL COLOURS NOW.

If we use any other app which can access our location such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Apple pay, Google pay, even SMS, why shouldn't we accept this? (Genuine question) *I believe it is at least safer than WeChat.

Give it to the CSIRO or some other independent agency and they might have a chance.

Up to Now I have Supported Morrison his Bans And Payment Packages. I still DO NOT THINK AUSTRALIA SHOULD LIFT ANY BANS UNTIL AT LEAST SEPTEMBER SOME BANS WILL NEVER BE LIFTED WE WILL JUST HAVE TO LIFE WITH THAT. But I DO NOT SUPPORT ANY Government Spying on My Private Phone Calls

Two words ScoVid ... Second word is OFF

I’ll be signing up in a heartbeat because the privacy has been improved and as a healthcare worker it will ... 1. Allow unemployed return to work faster and track hot spots to avoid and contact possibly infected ppl faster And 2. Save lives. COVID19au

Big brother over a stupid bug ! No way !

As if it’s not already 1984

We would just leave our phone at home easy

Really, he wants to force people to download an App. My old Nokia is not going to be happy about that!

No way

Oh will it? The population may have other ideas.

Does that mean it would be compulsory to carry a smart phone? Absurd.

Sounds very much like George Orwell's; '1984'

No.

I CAN LIVE WITHOUT A MOBILE PHONE

That ain't it chief

auspol coronavirus COVID19 Tracking

Just try it, ScottMorrisonMP and you will start a s*** fight of epic proportions.

alex_giann, dystopia again

I'll just throw my phone in the bin.

Threats didn’t work for my ex husband and threats from ScottyFromMarketing mean nothing to me.

I’d like to see them try that one on!!! Absolutely no way am I letting that thing on my phone.

If Morrison says trust us you must sign up for this then that is a signal for me to say get stuffed! I could not let this govt track me when they cant track the Ruby Princess passengers, nor track McKenzies sports rorts, nor Taylors water profits, nor George's Phillipine trips.

Are there already apps on my phone tracking my every movement? yeah. Will I download this app? Absolutely not.

Is Scotty’s middle name Adolf?

Any lawyers out there ready for this one?

I’d like to know how they can force you to download an app via a third party?

I don’t think so

👎🇦🇺👎

Nope nope nope

I don’t have a mobile. Ha ha

I would sooner be rid of the internet.

Anyone download the covid19 app the government pit out a few weeks back and Read the terms and conditions?

Another threat......

If people don't take it up, they clearly only have themselves to blame. Their record on this type of thing is terrible. They've proved they just can't be trusted.

its a leftist wet dream

Mobile tracking software is probably already on your phone, relax...

I can imagine a lot of phones sitting on the table, adjacent to the phone plug, where the old land line used to be!

Bullshit, it’s just another form of control

Will you be growing a little moustache next ScottMorrisonMP ?

I work in a GP clinic. What’s it going to do, ping me every time a case gets confirmed?

Interesting, as Singapore is quite a compliant population, with only 20% of people taking up their app, but their govt hasn't made it compulsory. I think if our govt tries to enforce this there will be an outcry.

john_cronin48 Never a month of Sundays would I download that software.

Fortunately he probably can’t force you to own a phone

Just received this from our carrier. I think the answer is no. This same message was just sent to all our minor aged children also as we are all in the same bill.

Welcome to China, that's how they control everything.

I'll just leave my phone at home

Will not accept being tracked ! End of story !, 😡

Arrest me, then, because I'm not putting that on my phone. No government is that trustworthy.

Yeah naaaah mate! Scott no chance! scottnochance yeahnah pulltheotherone

We’ll take back our unoccupied parliament house first. AuspolRevolution auspol

All of you saying ' No ' will end up downloading it. He knows you all don't have backbones! Look where he is right now! You all put him there, now stop complaining!

Hitler and the Gestapo can try...

Ahhhhh yeah nah mate. Go home slogan bogan, you’re drunk af. scomo auspol nope

starting to become a very scary country. Please before enforcing provide some great information on how the app will work, what it will track, who will develop it. Because let's be honest the track record of this government with the digital world is not world-class tosaytheleast

Yeah....good luck with that one ScumMo....

Does PM Freaking realise there are a swathe of areas that don’t have Mobile Coverage. It’s a NO from Me, regardless. My Trust is Zero is this lot !!!

Really, will they take your phone away from you, download the app and give it back to you. First they’ll need your password to gain access to you phone. But wait, I don’t have a smart phone. 😱

No way Jose!

First control media close parliament operate in backrooms, avoid FOI obligations spy on your own citizens play on racism and nationalism ply propaganda. Called totalitarian govt. Under LNP our democracy faces its biggest challenge since WW2. Preserve our freedom throw them out

Fine, not like I need to turn bluetooth on, I also own plug in headphones

Privacy issues will need to be worked on before any mandatory requirements are made. It will be hard to identify and track individuals with bluetooth, but BIG DATA makes it possible.

I can't wait to see how that will be enforced

SBS defunded unless they voluntarily report left wing and or fascist propaganda

I do not take my phone with me when I leave the house... unless I am waiting for an expected call back....SO the trackapp is useless for me to download it. ScottMorrisonMP mandatory download fine... to ENFORCE ME TO HAVE MY PH WITH ME 24/7..good luck

Absolutely impossible.

Human Rights Commission might have something to say about that Scott. You live in Australia mate, we're not a communist country yet.

No. No it couldn't.

Lol

Only cops and snirches need apply.

It was only amount of time. How will they force people without a smart phone? Issue one?

Fu*k no and NO and nooooò!

ScoMo showing his true authoritarian colours. Whats next, compulsory membership to Hillsong? auspol

Oh, really ?. You might wanna get legal advice on that...😡

I beg your pardon? Unless you “volunteer”, we’ll force you? Good luck with that Scott. I’ll see you in court.

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