Topic: Home Quarantine

Websites like MyLife.com aggregate public data to generate reputation scores that impact individuals professionally and personally. In Australia, a federal parliamentary inquiry suggests banning "bad" actors from the internet and granting police real-time access to private data. South Australia is launching a home quarantine trial app that requires citizens to report their location on demand, functioning similarly to an electronic ankle bracelet.

In Australia, Employment Minister Stuart Robert refused to rule out the use of electronic ankle bracelets to enforce home quarantine for citizens returning from abroad. Watson describes Australia's lockdown as one of the most draconian in the world, citing past incidents where police surrounded apartment blocks. He warns that these "prisoner on parole" methods are being normalized for the general population.