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Parliament: Singapore has been strengthening laws against terrorism, says Desmond Tan
The laws include expanded prohibitions on terrorism financing and stringent controls on the sale and possession of weapons.PHOTOS: INTERNAL SECURITY DEPARTMENT
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February 04, 2021
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SINGAPORE - In the last month, 350 people have asked for their contact tracing data to be erased from the Government s server, said Minister-in-charge of the Smart Nation Initiative Vivian Balakrishnan, after it came to light that the police can obtain contact tracing data for criminal investigations.
But he added that in the same period, over 390,000 have signed up to be part of the national contact tracing programme TraceTogether. So far, more than 80 per cent of the population have either downloaded the TraceTogether app or collected the token.
Thanks to the questions raised in Parliament, Singaporeans now have a better idea of the TraceTogether timeline , as referred to as such by Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister-in-charge of the Smart Nation initiative.
Committing to full transparency , Vivian shared the details in Parliament on Feb. 2, in response to questions from the Leader of the Opposition, Workers Party chief Pritam Singh.
Other WP MPs Sylvia Lim and Gerald Giam also raised issues such as why the Government took a while to correct the misrepresentation that the TraceTogether data was used for contact tracing only.
Questions raised in Parliament
In his speech, Singh asked: