[HN Gopher] Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tra...
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Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to
enforce quarantine
Author : throwawayfear
Score : 29 points
Date : 2021-09-12 22:11 UTC (48 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (www.geospatialworld.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.geospatialworld.net)
| Ms-J wrote:
| Citizens need to enforce and assert their rights there before
| it's too late.
| s5300 wrote:
| Did you never learn that the definition of a government
| includes having a monopoly on violence?
|
| Australia would essentially become a failed state with your
| suggestion, and I don't exactly think the government is just
| going to let that happen.
| bpodgursky wrote:
| If governments all had a permanent monopoly on violence we
| would all be forever living under the eternal dynasty of God-
| Emperor Hammurabi CCCXXIVI in the all-kingdom stretching from
| the Euphrates to all the sun has ever touched.
|
| Sometimes you have to break the rules to make long-term
| positive changes.
| anfilt wrote:
| Armed rebellion is not always needed to make changes. However
| just letting the state do what it wants without push back
| certainly is not going to change things.
| pclmulqdq wrote:
| Australia is already a failed state. That happened the second
| they decided to imprison their populace and started talking
| about the "New world order." The state has failed its people,
| and the only thing left is for it to crumble.
| mandelbrotwurst wrote:
| Wow, who was it in their government who was discussing a
| NWO? Do you have any link / source / context?
| throwawayfear wrote:
| Australia is already on its way to being a failed state by
| now. Police and military patrol the streets to enforce rules,
| "papers please" tyranny is required to live, and soon they'll
| demand complete surveillance and control in your own house.
|
| Wake up before it is too late.
|
| https://theconversation.com/vaccine-passports-are-coming-
| to-...
|
| "NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian yesterday announced freedoms
| for fully vaccinated people once 70% of the state's eligible
| population are double dosed. These include being able to go
| to hospitality venues, hairdressers and gyms, and have five
| people to your home."
|
| They are even now trying to limit how many people you can
| have over in your own home. It is a failed state. Wake up
| before you are enslaved.
| lwansbrough wrote:
| What rights? Australia does not have a bill of rights. It has a
| very limited number of fundamental rights outlined in the
| Constitution but other than that you seem to be pretty much
| screwed, which explains why these draconian measures always
| seem to land in Australia first.
| gobookdev wrote:
| We just had hundreds of thousands of people go to the beach
| yesterday ignoring lockdown orders, I was worried about my
| country having read things like Gulag Archipelago, but the
| general population have shown where their line is. Still we're
| now a police state and the general population doesn't seem to
| give a shit about that.
| throwawayfear wrote:
| Rally your people and take it to the politicians' offices
| until they throw out these policies entirely. Wear masks and
| go in big numbers.
| throwawayfear wrote:
| To "enforce quarantine"
| blitz_skull wrote:
| Wow. It's like the twilight zone over there. I'm quite concerned
| at the lengths governments are going to take away our rights. All
| in the name of "the good of others".
| InvertedRhodium wrote:
| Couldn't agree more - the fact that my request to go on a
| stabbing rampage was declined due to "the good of others" is a
| travesty against human rights and the freedoms that come with
| them.
| tootahe45 wrote:
| That's just the excuse, and the excuses don't come very often
| so you have to pass as many bs laws while the average voter is
| in a panic.
| ghuntley wrote:
| Source code for the South Australian app is at
| https://twitter.com/geoffreyhuntley/status/14308771839966904...
| glaucon wrote:
| "... following a selective tender process in November"
|
| Remarkably slow process given that we are dealing with a
| pandemic.
|
| Worth pointing out that "Australian gov to use" should read
| "South Australian gov to use" (South Australia being a state of
| Australia).
| chrisco255 wrote:
| We're dealing with an endemic disease that is going on its
| third year. At some point, people and governments need to
| recognize that fact: it's not controllable and it will spread
| eventually no matter how dystopian you get.
| notyourday wrote:
| No, no, no. This is HN. We are, like, possible COVID restrictions
| are good thing! Violate quarantine?! Beat them all up! It is for
| the children! And grandma! Google tracking you to place an ad in
| front of you for a better set of headphones than the ones you are
| currently shopping for that you can simply not buy? Now that's a
| violation of human rights!
| jp0d wrote:
| This might be an unpopular opinion! But there are some really bad
| people out there. The situation is getting out of hand here in
| Melbourne and there are people like this family who're Covid
| positive and still out and about in the community. We should
| blame selfish people like these for such measures from the
| government.
|
| https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/melbourne/article-9964173/M...
| tosstoyevsky wrote:
| The people aren't to blame for an extreme government overreach.
| oneepic wrote:
| From TFA:
|
| >Downloading and using the G2G app is voluntary in WA [Western
| Australia], but the Government encourages people to use it
|
| So not enforced, right...?
|
| (EDIT: my bad, this refers to an existing app; the new app sounds
| like it would be a mandated download)
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