'I treasure the government knowing as little about me as possible. My argument is if I'm of no concern you need know nothing about me.'
"I treasure the government knowing as little about me as possible. There's always the argument if you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to worry about. My argument is if I'm of no concern you need know nothing about me," he said."Australia is doing an extraordinary job of flattening the curve by reason that we are overwhelmingly decent and logical people. We don't need an app to tell us that.
John Roskam, who heads the Institute of Public Affairs think tank, which is influential with many Liberal MPs, said the app was "very bad and very dangerous". Liberal Tim Wilson said: "Everyone should make their own decision but I will happily, voluntarily be downloading the app with an expectation it will be removed immediately after the pandemic, and a firm commitment from the government that all data disappears with COVID-19."Mr Zimmerman said the app was warranted amid a global health crisis but said that "the data being collected obviously needs to come with assurances that it can only be used for health purposes".
Liberal senator Andrew Bragg praised the idea, saying he would happily sign up. "It makes sense to digitise contact tracing," he said.
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