Australia Could Force Citizens To Report Their Location On-Demand Via Government Tracking App
Australia Could Force Citizens To Report Their Location On-Demand Via Government Tracking App
BY TYLER DURDEN THURSDAY, SEP 02, 2021 - 10:20 PM Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,
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.
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