Australia’s privacy watchdog says police access to COVID-19 check-in app histories has the potential to “undermine” contact tracing efforts and should be prohibited. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), in which Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk sits, was responding to recent evidence of multiple requests by law enforcement officials across Australia attempting to access…

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