Prime Minister Scott Morrison says data collected from the coronavirus contact tracing app, which will use American company Amazon to host sensitive data, will be kept in Australia | MaxKoslowski
, and called on the government to share more information about how United States and Australian security laws interact.
Mr Morrison urged Australians to download the app, saying it would help states and territories relax lockdown laws. "It will be illegal for information to go out of that data store to any other person other than that for whom the whole thing is designed, and that is to support the health worker in the state to be able to undertake the contact tracing."
Labor maintains in-principle support for the app but has urged the security matters to be clarified before the mid-May sitting week, where address fears the app could be accessed not just by other countries, but by Australia's own law enforcement agencies without a warrant under controversial encryption laws passed in 2018.Get our Coronavirus Update newsletter for the day's crucial developments at a glance, the numbers you need to know and what our readers are saying. Sign up to
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