{"id":88231,"date":"2021-10-06T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T18:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=88231"},"modified":"2021-10-06T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T18:57:26","slug":"australias-covid-police-state-is-getting-very-serious-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=88231","title":{"rendered":"<h2>Australia&#8217;s Covid Police State Is Getting Very Serious Indeed<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Australians Being Mandated To Provide Police With Geo-Trackable Selfies To Prove They&#8217;re Quarantining<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Steve Watson<br \/>\nSummit News<\/p>\n<p><strong>In a move that again highlights how far toward a complete tyranny Australia has become in the wake of COVID, citizens are being mandated to provide geo-trackable selfies to police to prove they are staying at home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/GettyImages-1150819194.jpg?itok=tlPprxFx\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/GettyImages-1150819194.jpg?itok=tlPprxFx\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/GettyImages-1150819194.jpg?itok=tlPprxFx\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"c0376634-b7dc-44a8-aa85-adac79f47217\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A report from 9 News in Australia details how people in Victoria are now required to respond to the authorities within 5 minutes of them randomly calling by sending a selfie of themselves at home. If they fail to respond, health goons are sent to their address to dish out punishments.<\/p>\n<p>The reporter notes \u201cToday the call has gone out to everyone in home quarantine in Victoria to take part in a pilot program. And what that means is they will receive random phone calls and they will have to answer within five minutes with a selfie sent to an app which will then geo-track where that person is and to make sure they are who they say they are as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cIf they don\u2019t answer within the five minutes that\u2019s when health ministers come knocking,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>the reporter creepily adds.<\/p>\n<p>Watch:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rumble\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/vkr5xx\/?pub=4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/australias-two-largest-states-trial-facial-recognition-software-police-pandemic-2021-09-16\/\">Reuters reported<\/a>\u00a0on the scheme earlier this month, noting that it is\u00a0<strong>being trialled in \u201cNew South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, home to Sydney, Melbourne and more than half of Australia\u2019s 25 million population.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The technology involved uses facial recognition, but health authorities have refused to comment on the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters notes that \u201cUnder the system being trialled, people respond to random check-in requests by taking a \u2018selfie\u2019 at their designated home quarantine address. If the software, which also collects location data, does not verify the image against a \u201cfacial signature\u201d, police may follow up with a visit to the location to confirm the person\u2019s whereabouts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is something that was previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/01\/18\/uk-authorities-could-force-people-to-take-selfie-every-day-to-prove-theyre-self-isolating\/\">suggested for use in Britain<\/a>, but was abandoned over fears of privacy invasion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A literal government surveillance mandate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/10\/04\/insane-videos-show-australian-cops-battering-grocery-shoppers-protesters-fighting-back-chanting-freedom\/\">Australia is gone.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/australians-being-mandated-provide-police-geo-trackable-selfies-prove-theyre-quarantining\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/australians-being-mandated-provide-police-geo-trackable-selfies-prove-theyre-quarantining<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australians Being Mandated To Provide Police With Geo-Trackable Selfies To Prove They&#8217;re Quarantining<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}