The #COVIDSafe app legislation has landed. It mainly creates offences for stuff govt said would be banned - eg the main offence of collection/use/disclosure by those not conducting contact tracing (pen: 5 years prison, 300 penalty units or both) #auspol #auslaw 
There seems to be a very small amount of leeway if the collection is "permitted under an Australian law" - provided info is deleted immediately.
But elsewhere the legislation says it "cancels the effect of a provision of any Australian law" that would permit or require something banned in it.
It is also an offence to upload to the data to the national store without the user's consent.
Also an offence to retain #COVIDSafe data on a database outside Australia
And finally - here is the offence for requiring someone else to download/use #COVIDSafe, or refusing them goods/services. Richmond pub owners TAKE NOTE! #auspol #auslaw
Here's the link to full legislation: ag.gov.au/RightsAndProte…
The penalty is 5 years in prison and/or 300 penalty units which is $63,000 NOT $6,300 apologies for poor maths in earlier tweet.
The penalty is 5 years in prison and/or 300 penalty units which is $63,000 NOT $6,300 apologies for poor maths in earlier tweet.
NB: The leeway is where collecting Covid-safe data is incidental to collecting some other data. That's it.
