Q. The Federal Government is developing an app to trace people who test positive for Covid-19 have been in contact with. The app wouldn’t track your location, but it would use Bluetooth to record any other phones around you who also had had this app. If you then tested positive for Covid-19, an identifier would allow government officials to find anyone else who may have been exposed Covid-19.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with these statements about the suggested Covid-19 tracing app?
| NET: Agree | NET: Disagree | Strongly agree | Somewhat agree | Neither agree nor disagree | Somewhat disagree | Strongly disagree | |
| I would be concerned with the security of my personal data if this app was on my phone | 57% | 22% | 28% | 28% | 21% | 14% | 8% |
| This app would help limit the spread of Covid-19 | 53% | 18% | 20% | 33% | 29% | 10% | 8% |
| This app would speed up the removal of physical distancing restrictions | 46% | 20% | 14% | 32% | 34% | 11% | 9% |
| I’m confident the government will adequately protect any data it collects about me via the app | 41% | 30% | 12% | 29% | 29% | 14% | 16% |
| I would download this app onto my mobile phone | 40% | 32% | 17% | 23% | 28% | 12% | 20% |
| NET: Agree | Voting Intention | ||||
| Total | Labor | NET: Coalition | Greens | NET: Other | |
| I would be concerned with the security of my personal data if this app was on my phone | 57% | 64% | 48% | 60% | 66% |
| This app would help limit the spread of Covid-19 | 53% | 49% | 63% | 52% | 45% |
| This app would speed up the removal of physical distancing restrictions | 46% | 44% | 54% | 43% | 33% |
| I’m confident the government will adequately protect any data it collects about me via the app | 41% | 35% | 53% | 31% | 33% |
| I would download this app onto my mobile phone | 40% | 36% | 47% | 45% | 29% |
| Base (n) | 1,054 | 327 | 402 | 93 | 129 |