Singapore Government Tech Stack
Let’s not forget the whole fiasco with Singapore’s TraceTogether app for contact tracing during the pandemic. The actual implementation of it differs significantly from the white paper they open-sourced. The actual app does not anonymize the data and the government has access to everyone’s location and interaction data. Initially, their privacy policy promised the data would only be used for tracking of the spread of COVID but it was later revealed by the parliament that the police had in fact accessed the data for investigation purposes. There is no constitutional right to privacy in Singapore so they did not actually break any laws so it was mostly an “oops, too bad, we didn’t do anything ‘wrong’” moment for them.<p><a href="https://www.sgtech.org.sg/SGTECH/Web/SGTech_News_2020/May20/TraceTogether%20and%20BlueTrace%20are%20now%20Open%20Source.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.sgtech.org.sg/SGTECH/Web/SGTech_News_2020/May20/...</a><p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3116541/coronavirus-tracetogether-data-used-murder-case" rel="nofollow">https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/31...</a>