Australian government’s Covid-19 safe tracking app

CORONAVIRUS SAFE APP
AUSTRALIA










covidsafe.gov.au

                                

aus.gov.au/app

Australian government’s Covid-19 safe tracking app

The app will ask for your name (or pseudonym), age range, postcode and phone number.

How does the app work?

After you download and install the app from the Australian Apple App store or Google Play store – which you can also access from the government’s Covidsafe app page covidsafe.gov.au or aus.gov.au/app – you’ll be asked to register your name (or pseudonym), age range, postcode and phone number.
That information is stored encrypted on a government server, and then passed on to state and territory health authorities in the event that someone you’ve been in contact with has tested positive.
Using Bluetooth, the app records anyone you get close to who also has the app. The two apps exchange anonymised IDs, which cycle every two hours and are stored encrypted on phones and deleted after 21 days.

If someone is infected with coronavirus, they then use the app to consent to upload the list of anonymised IDs for the past 21 days of contact for contact tracing. It uses signal strength and other data then to work out who needs to be contacted.