Here in Singapore, a contact tracing app was developed early on in the country’s fight against the coronavirus. Called TraceTogether, the app works on bluetooth technology to help make it easier to locate all the people someone may have infected.
So if I’m in a supermarket for instance, and later on it turns out that I’ve got coronavirus the app would have a record of all the signals of other people who had downloaded it and that I had passed on my shopping trip. They can then be contacted and take precautions.
So far just about a fifth of the population has downloaded it according to reports - officials say at least half of the country needs to do it before it can work effectively.
But some Singaporeans are worried about privacy - whether the government will have access to their location data - and that’s why there haven’t been as many people downloading it as the government would like.
Others have complained about the sucking up of battery life.
On TraceTogether’s website, it reassures Singaporeans that won’t happen - and that the data won’t be accessed unless the user has been in close contact with a confirmed case.
Only at that point, the app’s makers say, would someone be contacted by the tracing team.
Still, it has become increasingly clear that Singapore’s government will want more people to download the app before we move out of the partial lockdown we’ve been in the last five weeks.
As the economic cost of that mounts, more may be convinced of the app’s merits.
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2020-05-08 03:11:41Z
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