Earlier on Monday (Jan 4), the government revealed that TraceTogether data may be used to aid criminal investigations, causing an uproar among Singapore citizens. According to the law, the police can obtain any data under Singapore’s jurisdiction for the purposes of criminal investigations, and this includes TraceTogether data. In response, …
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On 20 March 2020, the Government Technology Agency (GovTech) of Singapore released TraceTogether which uses Bluetooth technology to alert users if they have been in contact with COVID-19 patients. The app was built to augment existing contact tracing efforts so that authorities can quickly identify and quarantine close contacts of COVID-19 patients. …
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Following the Covid-19 outbreak, Singapore and other countries such as Japan, China, South Korea and India have developed their own versions of the contact tracing app, aimed at mitigating the spread of Covid-19. Fundamentally, contact tracing works by tracking down the individuals an infected person has been in contact with …
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