— https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-australia-still-liberal-democracy/619940/
"Intrastate travel within Australia is also severely restricted. And the government of South Australia, one of the country’s six states, developed and is now testing an app as Orwellian as any in the free world to enforce its quarantine rules. People in South Australia will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation. The state will text them at random times, and thereafter they will have 15 minutes to take a picture of their face in the location where they are supposed to be. Should they fail, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person. “We don’t tell them how often or when, on a random basis they have to reply within 15 minutes,” Premier Steven Marshall explained. “I think every South Australian should feel pretty proud that we are the national pilot for the home-based quarantine app.”
To put South Australia's Covid measures into perspective, I don't have to look much further than myself.
I'm on social media a lot. South Australia, with the policy that all citizens must download an app and respond to random texts at random times within fifteen minutes of the government check-in with a photo of themselves and where they are lest they get a visit from police is fucking horrifying.
I'm regularly away from my phone for more than fifteen minutes even when I'm not working. This isn't only the government demanding that you stay at home - it's the government demanding that you keep your eyes glued to a certain screen while you stay at home.
That's psychological torture.