Stumbling Surveillance: The end of the COVIDSafe App - Pearls and Irritations
The COVIDSafe App only identified two positive cases of infection during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and failed to work.
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The COVIDSafe App only identified two positive cases of infection during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and failed to work.
It took a few years of tolerable incompetence, caused fears about security, and was meant to be the great surveillance salvation to reassure us all. Instead, Australia’s COVIDSafe App only identified two positive cases of infection during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and failed, in every sense of the term, to work. Launched in April 2020, this
Australia's COVIDSafe App only identified two positive cases of infection during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and failed, in every sense of the term, to work.
NSW residents will receive push notifications on their smartphones alerting them to potential contact with a positive COVID-19 cases through a feature in the check-in app within days.
NSW residents will receive push notifications on their smartphones alerting them to potential contact with a positive COVID-19 cases through a feature in the check-in app within days.