New law on the use of the Trace Together data
The government is presenting a new law for Parliament to stop the police from getting access to the Trace Together data except for "serious crimes". The intention of this new law is to give assurance to the public that the Trace Together data will be kept private and will only be used for contact tracing to prevent the spread...
TraceTogether data can only be used for serious crimes
Even with such a legislation, it is not good enough. The government's promise to the people is solely for tracing infection. There should be no exceptions. By extending to "serious crimes" the government is presuming that the people alleged to have committed those crimes are guilty of the crimes. The government is not the judiciary....
Is the data in Trace Together private?
Minister Balakskrishnan (VB), who is in charge of the Smart Nation initiative, said a few months ago that the data collected under Trace Together (TT) app is not stored in the government servers and that kept privately in the user's mobile phone. Minister of State of Home Affairs Desmond Tan (DT) said in Parliament that the...
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