The New South Wales (NSW) government has followed Queensland to significantly broaden its contact tracing mandate but has promised to break the nationwide cycle of police accessing users’ private location data. From July 12, educational institutions, offices, supermarkets, amusement centres, recreational facilities, places of worship, and more, will all be required to set up QR code scanning stations to facilitate contact tracing through the Service NSW app. This comes amid mounting concerns and dwindling public trust after police in both Queensland and Western Australia (WA) were found to have legally accessed contact tracing data on at least one occasion—despite proclamations by state governments that the data would only be used for contact tracing purposes. “This is about keeping customers and staff safe and getting all businesses open again as soon as possible,” Minister for Digital and Customer Service Victor Dominello said. The new requirements follow an outbreak of the highly …