Australia has had mandatory check-ins for entering hospitality venues for about a year now under the guise of "contact tracing". Businesses are fined for non compliance.
It started as a hand written ledger at the front door. Full name, email, address, everything. Compliance was poor and hand written ledgers were not reliable. They escalated to electronic format via QR code. Each business subscribed to one of several services provided out in the market. Compliance was shit and staff rarely check your phone. You can also insert false information. Or just take screen capture of a past sign in and show it to them. Nobody ever takes your phone and does an audit. They are just staff that want your business after all, not the Gestapo.
Now the government wants to escalate to a government made app and centralized database based on a QR code system due to compliance problems. All mandatory of course just as before. Will be rolled out over the next few months and will impact more types of businesses.
How long before an armed guard at every door? or a police officer? Gestapo 2.0?
Australia has had mandatory check-ins for entering hospitality venues for about a year now under the guise of "contact tracing". Businesses are fined for non compliance.
It started as a hand written ledger at the front door. Full name, email, address, everything. Compliance was poor and hand written ledgers were not reliable. They escalated to electronic format via QR code. Each business subscribed to one of several services provided out in the market. Compliance was shit and staff rarely check your phone. You can also insert false information. Or just take screen capture of a past sign in and show it to them. Nobody ever takes you phone and does a audit. They are just staff that want your business after all, not the Gestapo.
Now the government wants to escalate to a government made app and centralized database based on a QR code system due to compliance problems. All mandatory of course just as before. Will be rolled out over the next few months and will impact more types of businesses.
How long before an armed guard at every door? or a police officer? Gestapo 2.0?