The left have always thought that money grows on trees and that they are entitled to more than there fair share. When tens of thousands march in the street to demonstrate their ignorance and stupidity Andrews and other socialist Premiers shut their eyes. Morrison did a very dumb thing forming an alliance with these traitors.

Hi "Albie Manton in Darwin"
on "Monday, 13 July 2020 9:14:57 AM" at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=20997#370881

People should get used to being tracked for HEALTH & other legal reasons (I am)

just as they are "followed" daily for ADVERTISING SALES reasons by Facebook, Twitter, Google and especially by HTTP cookies on most sites (eg. Amazon) they visit - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

"An HTTP cookie (also called web cookie, Internet cookie, browser cookie, or simply cookie) is a small piece of data sent from a website and STORED ON THE USER'S COMPUTER by the user's web browser while the user is browsing.

Cookies were/are designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember stateful information (such as items added in the shopping cart in an online store) or to RECORD THE USER'S BROWSING ACTIVITY (including CLICKING PARTICULAR BUTTONS, LOGGING IN, OR RECORDING which pages were visited in the past).

They can also be used to remember pieces of information that the user previously entered into form fields, SUCH AS NAMES, ADDRESSES, PASSWORDS, AND CREDIT-CARD NUMBERS."
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So Albie

I haven't seen anyone objecting to constant ADVERTISING SALES surveillance, user record keeping and GPS tracking via HTTP cookies on their laptop/notebooks and mobile phones!

Why is that?

Have we been conned so well by the Internet billionaires (Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)) of this world?

Pete

Yes Pete, as you are aware, even your mobile tracker device (aka: the telephone in your pocket or handbag) can give the authorities an accurate, up to the minute, very precise fix (GPS Coordinates) on where you are & have been, it's called "Triangulation". For this reason I chose way back when, that I was not afraid of Big Brother to the point I am who I am on OLO & other blogs since that time. If they (the authorities, Goons, Stasi, Border Farce, local Gendarmes, ATO, Centrelink, etc) wish to question me, then everything is there in the open. I laugh at the continuing advertisements being played regarding CV-19, the "cover your cough, wash your hands, AND download the 'COVID SAFE App'..." Yes, like the so many long dead folk who took the advice of "medical experts" and diligently wore a condom when having sex with a partner infected with AIDS, unaware that the virus could actually transfer due to molecular size of the prophylactic material. I've often made comments about our governments exhibiting a "creeping Fascism" over the years. That we see most police forces in Australia wearing black uniforms, is an observation and more tellingly, a commentary on the times in which we live. The recent Surveillance laws enacted are just another step in that dark and murky direction.

Hi Albie

I reckon there's no "creeping Fascism" in Australia, other than some non-Governmental, extremist, individuals and groups.

You want to see Fascism? - try Russia, China, Islamo-Fascist countries and many other third world dictatorships.

Cheers

Pete