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  • Submission to Inquiry into the Australian Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic

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    Galloway, Kate
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    Galloway, Kate S.
    Year published
    2020
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    Abstract
    This submission addresses the terms of reference of the Inquiry focusing on two discrete areas: 1. the role of personal data in managing the pandemic; and 2. the differential effect of the pandemic economic policy response on women relative to men. 1. Summary 1.1. Data management >> As the COVID-19 pandemic will likely last into the medium term, epidemiologists are likely increasingly to turn to big data technologies. >> The government currently lacks a social licence in terms of data use which is likely to have hampered the uptake of the COVIDSafe app and which will likely adversely affect any other data-based technologies ...
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    This submission addresses the terms of reference of the Inquiry focusing on two discrete areas: 1. the role of personal data in managing the pandemic; and 2. the differential effect of the pandemic economic policy response on women relative to men. 1. Summary 1.1. Data management >> As the COVID-19 pandemic will likely last into the medium term, epidemiologists are likely increasingly to turn to big data technologies. >> The government currently lacks a social licence in terms of data use which is likely to have hampered the uptake of the COVIDSafe app and which will likely adversely affect any other data-based technologies relevant to pandemic management. >> To be in a position to harness any benefits offered by data-rich technologies in a public health context, Parliament and government must engage with the public to enact a charter of data rights enshrining substantive rights and protections for individuals in relation to all data. 1.2. Women >> Women have been disproportionately affected by job losses during the COVID-19 pandemic, that have revealed the precarity of their work in the normally functioning economy. >> The financial measures implemented as part of the government’s COVID-19 economic response have failed to respond to the existing structural differences between men’s and women’s workforce participation. >> Government should implement a women’s policy statement representing an analysis of the effect of policy on women’s financial wellbeing, to avoid or minimize adverse economic effects in both the short and the long term.
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    https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/COVID-19/COVID19/Submissions
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    © The Author(s) 2020. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the publisher’s website for further information.
    Subject
    Data and information privacy
    Law, gender and sexuality (incl. feminist legal scholarship)
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/394450
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