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Singapore Limits Contact-Tracing Data Access After Outcry

Singapore’s parliament passed a law 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. But there was an outcry last month when officials admitted police could access information gathered in the scheme as part of investigations, and had already done so during a murder probe.

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February 3, 2021 SINGAPORE (AFP) – Singapore’s parliament passed a law yesterday 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 per cent 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. But there was an outcry last month when officials admitted police could access information gathered in the scheme as part of investigations, and had already done so during a murder probe.

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Singapore Backtracks on COVID-19 Tracking App Privacy Pledge

Advertisement Singapore’s government has come under fire after revealing that data gathered by its official COVID-19 contact tracing app could be accessed by police conducting criminal investigations, contradicting earlier assurances of privacy. When the Bluetooth-enabled TraceTogether app was launched in March of last year, the Singaporean government encouraged people to sign up by assuring them that their privacy would be safeguarded. The software’s privacy statement promised that data gathered by the app would “only be used solely for contact tracing of persons possibly exposed to COVID-19.” Similarly explicit promises were offered by Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan in June, when he told a press conference, “TraceTogether app, TraceTogether running on a device, and the data generated, is purely for contact-tracing. Period.”

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Police can access app data

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