Tag: COVID-19

Agencies getting COVIDSafe data by accident

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Law enforcement agencies have not accessed or decrypted any data from the federal government’s COVIDSafe app despite sometimes “incidentally” collecting information from it,  the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security...

Victoria launches online vaccine booking platform

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Eligible Victorians can now book in to receive the COVID-19 vaccination using a Microsoft online booking platform the state government purchased for nearly $6 million more than five months...

WA Police accessed COVID check-in app data

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Western Australian police twice accessed data from the state’s COVID-19 contact tracing check-in app, forcing the state government to introduce urgent legislation to prevent it happening again. The...

Accenture lands $7m govt deal for vaccine data work

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government will pay Accenture a further $7 million to make “modest enhancements” to its vaccine ordering system, after the global consulting giant was paid $8 million to...

Govt launches COVID-19 vaccine digital certificates

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has launched digital certificates for Australians to show on their smartphones to prove they have received both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. The COVID-19 vaccine digital...

Another $2m McKinsey vaccine contract hidden

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Multinational consulting giant McKinsey was paid nearly $2 million over three months late last year by the federal health department to assist with the Covid-19 vaccine rollout. But the...

COVIDSafe hasn’t found any contacts this year

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app has not found any new contacts this year and has still identified just 17 people in total, with the agency behind it...

Visa platform delayed to include COVID data

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The federal government is still yet to decide which of the three shortlisted US tech firms will be tasked with building a new digital visa processing platform, with the...

Govt keeps McKinsey’s $2m mRNA report secret

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A report on the development of onshore mRNA vaccine manufacturing capabilities that the federal government paid McKinsey $2 million to write and is driving its push for a local...