{"id":26335,"date":"2021-01-05T14:16:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T05:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/05\/singapore-says-police-will-be-given-access-to-covid-19-contact-tracing-data"},"modified":"2021-01-05T14:16:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T05:16:56","slug":"singapore-says-police-will-be-given-access-to-covid-19-contact-tracing-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26335","title":{"rendered":"Singapore says police will be given access to Covid-19 contact tracing data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns over privacy as TraceTogether scheme is used by almost 80% of the nation\u2019s population <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Singapore has announced its police will be able to use data obtained by its coronavirus contact-tracing technology for criminal investigations, a decision likely to increase privacy concerns around the system.<\/p>\n<p>The technology, deployed as both a phone app and a physical device, is being used by nearly 80% of the 5.7 million population, authorities said, after announcing its use would become compulsory in places such as shopping malls.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/05\/singapore-says-police-will-be-given-access-to-covid-19-contact-tracing-data\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns over privacy as TraceTogether scheme is used by almost 80% of the nation\u2019s population Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSingapore has announced its police will be able to use data obtained by its coronavirus contact-t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1787,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,914,299,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-singapore","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1787"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26336,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26335\/revisions\/26336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}