Personal privacy and public health: "I've had to delete my SafeWA app and burn my AstraZeneca t-shirt"

June 18, 2021

ABC Mornings News Panel guests criminal barrister Linda Black and doctor and writer Bruce Powell, discuss whether the WA Police use of data from the SafeWA app was a breach of privacy.


"I've had to delete my Safe WA app and I have had to burn my AstraZeneca t-shirt," Dr Bruce Powell said.


"What am I supposed to do when the goal posts around SafeWA privacy and the vaccination go around so fast, I don't even know which way to kick."


Linda Black described the actions by police as "deplorable".


"I think it is absolutely deplorable behaviour by the Police Commissioner, to take advantage of what he described as a loophole in the terms and conditions in circumstances where he knew that people had been prepared to give up their essential privacy in order for the protection of the greater public good, and the protection of all of our health," she said.



Listen to the full conversation on Mornings with Nadia Mitsopoulos.


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