2021-11-03
Australian Information Commission has found that Clearview AI breached Australians' privacy when scraping their biometric information from the web: https://www.zdnet.com/... They have ordered the data be destroyed, although unsure about the extraterritorial nature of the order.
ZDNet
A joint probe by Australia and UK's Information Commissioners finds Clearview AI collected data on 3B+ people by indiscriminately scraping info from the web
Despite uncovering Clearview AI's intrusive practices, Australia's Information Commissioner conceded that the number of Australians … Source: Office of the Australian Information C...
2021-04-13
The suspicion is that this article doesn't tell the full story, because as far as I know, Apple and Google know about the NZ app and have been okay with it. And that's also probably why the UK folks had confidence in going ahead with their plan...
MacRumors
Apple Support docs show that unusual mid-production hardware changes were made to its A12, A13, and S5 chips last fall, to update the Secure Storage Component
So perhaps it's that the UK app may have tried to upload BT and QR Code-based location data together, thus linking them together, rather than having two separate upload mechanisms that go to two separate systems like we have in NZ... But still just a guess at this point.
MacRumors
Apple Support docs show that unusual mid-production hardware changes were made to its A12, A13, and S5 chips last fall, to update the Secure Storage Component
2021-01-05
Every country seeking to use digital contact tracing needs to give their population assurances that this won't happen in their jurisdiction. Aus-style legislative protections could be used here in NZ, prohibiting alt use of contact tracing data in a public health response order. https://twitter.com/...
ZDNet
Singapore now says local law enforcement can access COVID-19 contact tracing data; 78% of its population has adopted the TraceTogether app and wearable token
Eileen Yu / ZDNet :