Posted on 09/02/2021 11:06:49 AM PDT by george76
Send a photo within 15 minutes or the police are sent out..
The government of South Australia is running a trial for a system that could eventually force citizens to take a photo of themselves via a government app to report their location on demand within 15 minutes of authorities requesting it, or face a police investigation.
Yes, really.
The revelation was highlighted in an Atlantic piece by Conor Friedersdorf which questions whether Australia can still call itself a liberal democracy in light of the crippling restrictions it has placed on its own population.
With no end in sight for the lifting of the country’s brutal lockdown, Aussies could face even more invasive state intrusion into their private lives under the justification of stopping the spread of the virus.
The South Australian government is preparing to roll out an app that “will contact people at random asking them to provide proof of their location within 15 minutes,” according to reports.
If people refuse to report their location or are unable to do so, police are then dispatched to hunt them down.
“We don’t tell them how often or when, on a random basis they have to reply within 15 minutes,” said Premier Steven Marshall.
This is barely much different from literally fitting people with electronic ankle bracelets that track their every movement like prisoners under home arrest, a policy that was actually considered by Australian authorities earlier this year.
“No matter your views of COVID, what’s happening in Australia is alarming, extreme and dangerous,” remarked journalist Glenn Greenwald.
As we have exhaustively highlighted, Australia has enforced one of the most draconian lockdowns in the world in an effort to pursue a disastrous ‘zero COVID’ strategy.
Last month, the Premier of Victoria asserted that authorities “won’t hesitate” to go “door-to-door” to carry out mandatory COVID tests on Australians.
Aussies were also ordered not to talk to each other, even while wearing masks, while people who merely post anti-lockdown information online could also face fines of up to $11,000 dollars under an absurdly authoritarian new law.
There is no “could” about it. This is already being done in Oz as of at least two weeks ago.
Cell phones are evil bump.
Both Huxley and Orwell were prophets...........!
Sounds like a great project for a software engineer. Create an app that no matter where you are, it looks like you are in a government authorized prison cell.... I mean your house. I am sure they will resort to cell phone GPS tracking before it’s over.
South Australia was one of the most authoritarian of the Australian states I visited while there.
Damned shame about Australia becoming an oppressive police state. Too bad we don’t have a President who’d step up and challenge the scumbag communists who are literally turning that country into a prison camp.
Because EVERYBODY has a cell phone right? Faraday bag. Or just leave it off and battery out. 🐴💩
My cell phone would always be at the bottom of the nearest body of water.
They went back to being a prison.
If you hijack the phone, you can override the location.
Folks do this and use snapchat to post suburban pics in antarctica, for example.
Here is video of someone checking in via the Oz Covid app.
Go to 19:36, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSrWn5u72ew&t=19s&ab_channel=SailingLaVagabonde
An Australian Civil War? How much further must they go, before it becomes inevitable? Rubicons are being crossed, there, here, and all over the world. Can you sense it?
Guess the sheep population in Australian is a lot larger than I had thought.
People should watch Enemy of the State.
Good flick too.
Gene Hackman, Will Smith, Jon Voight, Seth Green, Jack Black, Busey’s kid, Caan’s kid, ...
The actual cell towers used are still recorded by the carrier. You can spoof the location for display purposes, but the triangulation from cellphone towers still locates you within a few feet.
May have to re watch it.
Deleted my original response as it would likely result in a stern knock on my door by nightfall.
The opportunities to be passive aggressively compliant are endless. I assume that some of the more morally challenged may even send creative explicate images.
Leave the phone at home with someone. Take a picture of a picture.
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