Proof that governments can delete data on their citizens instead of constantly spying.
(Cries in American)
I don’t think Singapore is the best example of not spying on its citizens.
We’re pretty good at deleting voting data :/
Oh, we had that too!
Where’s the proof though? It’s easy to say you’ve deleted data.
What’s more, 3rd parties could have had access to the data, even if only to provide the service, and that’s just another party you’re blindly trusting.
The cat is long since out the bag. The sooner we make raw data freely available to everyone the better - that’s certainly a more realistic hope than controlling data access or even getting businesses to pay people for the data they steal from them.
Ideally the data would have been useless anyways as it wasnt really necessary for automated contact-tracing to keep it identifiable for government agencies.
See DP-3T (Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing) standardThis is the best summary I could come up with:
Singapore’s government announced on Monday it had deleted almost all the personal data collected from its COVID tracking systems – TraceTogether (TT) and SafeEntry (SE) – as of February 1.
SafeEntry served as a check-in system to log details of people visiting public venues like malls and offices, to record movements so authorities could monitor for outbreaks.
The murder case became a hot button issue as residents were initially promised data would be “used solely for contact tracing of persons possibly exposed to COVID-19.”
Concerns emerged that use of the data off label for criminal investigations would erode trust among the public and lower usage – and thus efficacy – of the COVID prevention programs.
Still, the tech did outperform many other apps – so much that Singapore open-sourced TraceTogether and an advisor to the World Health Organization recommended the idea for wider adoption.
“The digital contact tracing systems, TraceTogether (TT) and SafeEntry (SE), will no longer be required as Singapore transitions towards managing COVID-19 like other endemic diseases,” explained the Smart Nation Group.
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Because they have already collected all the necessary data and probably fed it to various systems like AI and even sold it to companies specializing in digital tracking. Capitalism never loses. Don’t trust, verify
