Victorians’ Covid contact tracing data sent to crime authority for potential use by Palantir

Exclusive: Australian data security experts described the July 2020 move as dubious' and outrageous'

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Under pressure to control spiralling Covid cases in July 2020, the Victorian government sent contact tracing data to the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission in the hope a controversial data mining platform might help identify the source of mystery cases.

Data security experts described the move as dubious" and outrageous".

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