Tag Archives: TraceTogether

Shaw Centre had put a temperature scanner in one of its cargo lifts and deployed the lift’s sole attendant, a 60-year-old man, to supervise it. This happened after a Safe Distancing Ambassador allegedly told the mall that visitors can enter the mall via the cargo lift and bypass the SafeEntry …

Dear Editors, You must have seen recent news about the COVID vaccine being available to those under 45 from June this year. As much as our authorities keep trying to assure all of us that taking the vaccine would be voluntary, we have already seen instances of people being “forced” …

Min Shan tried to assure Singaporeans that sexual orientation do not influence policies. But why is 377A still around?

If the minister truly regrets his mistake, he should come clean, apologise and bow to Singaporeans before resigning. Only by doing so can Vivian Balakrishnan prove to citizens that he is taking "full responsibility" for the TraceTogether mess.

Having felt betrayed by the PAP, netizens are talking about deleting the TraceTogether App or abandoning their tokens.

Singaporeans who were concerned about using TraceTogether because it might possibly violate their data privacy have been proven right all along!

A Singaporean shared his frustrations with the lack of choices in this country. He feels things and decisions have been forced onto citizens since birth, and our freedom continues to be eroded away… unless the underperforming overpaid Ministers are voted out. His post published in full: I didn’t choose to …

The state media recently interviewed a lawyer who said people caught tampering with their devices are liable for jail under Singapore's wide array of laws.

The Covid19 multi-ministry taskforce announced that by end-Dec 2020, the public can no longer gain entry into popular venues by scanning SafeEntry QR codes or their NRIC barcodes. The government will be making it compulsory for members of the public to check in using the TraceTogether app or token instead.

The Workers' Party politician Gerald Giam blogged about PAP's plans to roll out TraceTogether Tokens to all Singaporeans. If the PAP pushes its way through, an estimated 5.7 million residents in Singapore will be marked with a contact tracing device which will cost taxpayers over $100 million. However, TraceTogether has continually faced compatibility issues especially with iPhones. To overcome these issues, Apple and Google have developed their own contact tracing protocol called Exposure Notifications. While the PAP stubbornly insists on developing and implementing its TraceTogether project, at least 22 countries have now switched to using Exposure Notifications.