My concern here is that it assumes there are only two options - download or refuse Aus& #39;s covid19 app - without asking whether it could be designed for better privacy: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-16/coronavirus-tracing-app-should-i-download-it/12151324
I">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020... don& #39;t see how anyone can decide about it without knowing what it is. #covid19aus https://twitter.com/johncoyne14/status/1250531598644043777">https://twitter.com/johncoyne...

You& #39;ve said "What is being proposed is no different than our existing health surveillance system." OK, that& #39;s not obvious from public information - I assume you& #39;ve had a careful look at the tech. So are you saying there& #39;s no upload of location data for non-infected people?

You& #39;ve also said "But I also want the Government to assure us that once this crisis is over, it won& #39;t use our data for anything else." Would a commitment like that be a precondition for your downloading it, or are you just asking nicely? How would you test compliance? #auspol

Why not use this opportunity to examine the least invasive ways of doing contact tracing and insist on those? Like most other cryptographers and privacy advocates, I& #39;ve advocated a decentralised alternative to TraceTogether https://github.com/vteague/contactTracing">https://github.com/vteague/c...