Tenants and homeowners at one Sydney apartment block are made to sign in guests to their OWN homes with a QR code
Sydney apartment residents are being asked to make their guests scan a QR code every time they enter through the front door.
A section of the Macquarie Park Village complex in the city's north has laminated Covid contact tracing notices at the entrance to some units.
Those entering each apartment are asked to use a Service New South Wales government app 'to check in before entering' like customers are required to now at restaurants, cafes, clubs, hairdressers and cinemas.
Another sign explains the rules for tenants and guests entering both the building and individual apartments in the 'Perth' section of the complex, which is on the corner of Herring and Epping roads, near a university and major shopping mall.
Sydney apartment residents are being asked to make their guests scan a QR code every time they enter through the front door. The QR code is blacked out for privacy reasons
'Please ensure you and visitors are registering when entering the building/units,' the sign said.
'Tenants need to register once, visitors on every visit.
'This will allow us to be Covid safe.'
The sign said 'the responsibility to check in is on you'.
A woman who lives in the complex, asking to remain anonymous for fear of antagonising government authorities, said requiring residents to make their guests sign a QR code went too far.
'It's one thing to contact trace at public venues but I refuse to f***ing do this in my own home,' she said.
'This is beyond government overreach and a violation of privacy.
People entering each apartment are asked to use a Service New South Wales government app 'to check in before entering' like customers are required to do at restaurants, cafes, clubs, hairdressers and cinemas
'I'm not "checking in" to my own goddamn home on an app that sends directly to the government.'
The resident said maintenance workers, who weren't wearing face masks, knocked at her door on Wednesday, entered her rental unit and put up the notices but she didn't realise signs had gone up until after they had left.
'They put signs all over the buildings last week saying they were going to be doing inspections on the fire alarms in the units,' she told Daily Mail Australia.
'I was actually home and let them in.'
No third party strata group has yet acknowledged putting up the signs which coincided with fire inspections.
Her section of Macquarie Park Village is called Perth, with areas of the complex named after Australian capital cities.
The Macquarie Park Village complex in the city's north has laminated contact tracing notices at the entrance to each unit
Daily Mail Australia contacted the property manager for the Perth section of the Macquarie Park Village to ask if the sign-in system for guests was compulsory or voluntary and if they were concerned about possible privacy breaches.
Pacific Building Management Group said they did not put up the signs and suggested landlords using Airbnb or individual real estate agents may have done this.
They also said the signs had nothing to do with the fire contractors.
While Sydney's north has had a spate of locally-acquired coronavirus cases, the Ryde local government area has no existing active cases, despite being home to Macquarie University and the Macquarie Centre shopping mall.
The NSW government at this stage is only requiring hospitality and service venues to make patrons sign in via a QR code.