ANALYSIS: Getting Australians to use government-sponsored coronavirus-tracing app a daunting exercise in persuasion
With a view to keeping a closer eye on the coronavirus outbreak, the Prime Minister's tasked development of a smartphone app to help monitor the daily interactions of Australians.
So how then is the Federal Government going to get almost half of all Australians to hand over their data? He was quizzed as to whether he thought people would be willing to download an app that handed over their movements to the Government."If people believed and understood that if we could trace people's contacts quicker and track down the coronavirus faster and save people's lives … we could open our economy up more? It's a bit like buying war bonds during the war.
"If that tool is going to help people do that, this may be one of the sacrifices we need to make," he said.
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