Tag: COVIDSafe

More work on Vic Salesforce tracing platform

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The Victorian government will pay a large tech consultancy nearly $4 million to improve its Salesforce COVID-19 contact tracing platform over the first six months of this year. Under...

Fresh calls for an inquiry into COVIDSafe app

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COVIDSafe did nothing to help combat the second wave of COVID-19 in Victoria, according to a state parliament report, while a federal Parliamentary committee has called for an independent...

COVIDSafe overhaul fails to stem criticism

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The government’s decision to completely overhaul the protocol underpinning COVIDSafe in an effort to improve functionality of the contact tracing app has done little to stem the ongoing calls...

OAIC reports just 11 COVIDSafe privacy complaints

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Australia’s national privacy office received only 11 complaints regarding COVIDSafe since it was launched earlier this year, with attention turning away from the contact tracing app which is yet...

Privacy office to report on COVIDSafe in weeks

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The country’s privacy regulator will release its first report on COVIDSafe within weeks, with the national audit office also considering scrutinising the federal government’s controversial contact tracing app. The...

COVIDSafe contractor bill now close to $10M

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A Canberra firm has been handed an additional $4 million for its work on COVIDSafe, with the government now having paid private contracts worth nearly $10 million for the...

Local developer gets a COVIDSafe pay rise

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Local technology firm Shine Solutions has been given a $350,000 pay rise from the federal government for its ongoing work on COVIDSafe, bringing the total amount spent on contractors...

‘Cancelled’ ANU academic goes on the record

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The lecturer at the centre of the ANU academic freedom controversy has spoken out, saying she was surprised and “disappointed” she was removed as moderator of a panel discussion...

COVIDSafe data: 14 new contacts, none outside NSW

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The federal government’s much-hyped contact tracing app has identified just 14 new close contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases, and none outside of New South Wales, nearly six months after...