‘Please uninstall COVIDSafe’: App branded a failure and deleted

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journal concluded this caused substantial additional work for contact tracers, without making a meaningful contribution to COVID response.

According to the Albanese government, the last upload of data to the national COVIDSafe data store was in May 2021, and there has been no access to the data store by state authorities since January 2022.

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