Police using QR check-in data to solve crimes | Gallo_Ways
The nation’s privacy watchdog has called for police forces to be banned from accessing information from QR code check-in applications after law enforcement agencies have sought to use the contact-tracing data on at least six occasions to solve unrelated crimes.
“The OAIC considers that personal information collected for contact-tracing purposes should not be used for other purposes such as law enforcement or even direct marketing,” the spokesperson said. “If regular state police access to check-in data undermines trust and confidence in their apps it will be entirely self-defeating,” he said. “We do not need to make the task of contact tracers any harder by discouraging people from using the apps.”
Liberal senator Gerard Rennick said he was not against contact tracing but state governments needed to start respecting people’s privacy.“It should only be for COVID reasons, that’s why it was introduced. Police have been able to solve crimes in the past, so there is no reason why they can’t solve crimes now,” he said. “It leads to the bigger issues of trust in government.”
Opposition legal affairs spokesman Mark Dreyfus said QR codes had been a critical tool in fighting COVID-19, but members of the public needed to have complete confidence in them.
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