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Bill limiting police use of TraceTogether data to serious crimes passed
The safeguards under the Bill include deleting TraceTogether and SafeEntry data when the pandemic is over.ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
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Video of Vivian Balakrishnan speaks in Parliament about the use of TraceTogether data
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Singapore News - Contact tracing data is reserved strictly for the fight against the coronavirus and investigations into the most serious crimes, under proposed legal changes that will override all other legislation. This means that public agencies cannot cite other laws to compel the use. Read more at www.tnp.sg
Contact tracing data is reserved strictly for the fight against the coronavirus and investigations into the most serious crimes, under proposed legal changes that will override all other legislation.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Singapore has passed a law limiting police access to data gathered by the TraceTogether contact-tracing app after an outcry over privacy concerns. File photo: Reuters Singapore s parliament passed a law on Tuesday limiting the use of data collected for coronavirus contact-tracing after the government admitted it could be accessed by police, sparking privacy concerns.
The city-state last year rolled out a programme called TraceTogether for tracking close contacts of Covid-19 patients that works via both a phone app and dongle, but uptake was initially slow.
It rose to more than 80 percent of residents after government assurances the data would only be used to fight the virus and a decision to make it mandatory for accessing some public places.