{"id":778534,"date":"2022-08-18T05:57:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T05:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=252391"},"modified":"2022-08-18T05:57:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T05:57:43","slug":"stumbling-surveillance-the-end-of-the-covidsafe-app-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/08\/18\/stumbling-surveillance-the-end-of-the-covidsafe-app-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stumbling Surveillance: The End of the COVIDSafe App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took a few years of tolerable incompetence, caused fears about security, and was meant to be the great surveillance salvation to reassure us all.\u00a0 Instead, Australia\u2019s COVIDSafe App only identified two positive cases of infection during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and failed, in every sense of the term, to work. Launched in April 2020, this  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/08\/18\/stumbling-surveillance-the-end-of-the-covidsafe-app\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/08\/18\/stumbling-surveillance-the-end-of-the-covidsafe-app\/\">Stumbling Surveillance: The End of the COVIDSafe App<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took a few years of tolerable incompetence, caused fears about security, and was meant to be the great surveillance salvation to reassure us all.\u00a0 Instead, Australia\u2019s COVIDSafe App only identified two positive cases of infection during the SARS-CoV&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778558,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778534\/revisions\/778558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}