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完整標題：Singapore reveals Covid privacy data available to police
發稿單位：BBC NEWS Singapore
發稿時間：2021/1/5
撰 稿 者：Andreas Illmer
原文連結：https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55541001

Singapore reveals Covid privacy data available to police

By Andreas Illmer
BBC News, Singapore

Published 3 hours ago


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Singapore's Covid app is widely used across the country

Singapore has admitted data from its Covid contact tracing programme
can also be accessed by police, reversing earlier privacy assurances.

Officials had previously explicitly ruled out the data would be used
for anything other than the virus tracking.

But parliament was told on Monday it could also be used "for the
purpose of criminal investigation".

Close to 80% of residents are signed up to the TraceTogether
programme, which is used to check in to locations.

The voluntary take up increased after it was announced it would soon
be needed to access anything from the supermarket to your place of
work.

The TraceTogether programme, which uses either a smartphone app or a
bluetooth token, also monitors who you have been in contact with.

If someone tests positive with the virus, the data allows tracers to
swiftly contact anyone that might have been infected. This prompted
concerns over privacy - fears which have been echoed across the world
as other countries rolled out their own tracing apps.

To encourage people to enrol, Singaporean authorities promised the
data would never be used for any other purpose, saying "the data will
never be accessed, unless the user tests positive for Covid-19 and is
contacted by the contact tracing team".

But Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan told parliament on
Monday that it can in fact also be used "for the purpose of criminal
investigation", adding that "otherwise, TraceTogether data is to be
used only for contact tracing and for the purpose of fighting the
Covid situation".

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How Singapore's tag-tracing system works

However, the privacy statement on the TraceTogether site was then
updated on the same day to state that "the Criminal Procedure Code
applies to all data under Singapore's jurisdiction".

"Also, we want to be transparent with you," the statement reads.
"TraceTogether data may be used in circumstances where citizen safety
and security is or has been affected.

"The Singapore Police Force is empowered under the Criminal Procedure
Code (CPC) to obtain any data, including TraceTogether data, for
criminal investigations."


'Only for criminal investigations'

On Tuesday, the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vivian
Balakrishnan, clarified that it was not just TraceTogether data that
was used in cases of serious criminal investigations.

He said under the CPC, "other forms of sensitive data like phone or
banking records" would also have their privacy regulations overruled
in such cases.

Mr Balakrishnan added that to his knowledge, police had so far only
once accessed contact tracing data, in the case of a murder
investigation.

The minister stressed though that "once the pandemic is over and there
will no longer be a need for contact tracing, we will happily stand
down the TraceTogether programme."

Monday's announcement though sparked some controversy on social media,
with people calling out the government and some users posting that
they had now deleted the app.

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"I'm disappointed, but not at all surprised," local journalist and
activist Kirsten Han told the BBC. "This is actually something that
I've been flagging as a concern since the earlier days of
TraceTogether - and was sometimes told that I was just a paranoid
fearmonger undermining efforts to fight Covid-19.

"It doesn't feel good at all to discover I was right."


Eroding public trust?

"I think why most people are so angry about this is not that they feel
like they're constantly being watched," one Singaporean, who did not
want to be named, told the BBC. "We already have that through other
means like CCTV.

"It's more that they feel like they've been cheated. The government
had assured us many times that TraceTogether would only be used for
contact tracing, but now they've suddenly added this new caveat."

Another person told the BBC they wished they could delete the app, but
daily life would be impossible without it.

"So I'm just going to disable my Bluetooth for TraceTogether from now
on, unless I have to use it to enter somewhere. If the app is not only
going to be used for contact tracing, then it's too much of an
invasion of privacy."

Australian privacy watchdog Digital Rights Watch, told the BBC they
were "extremely concerned" about the news from Singapore.

"This is the worst case scenario that privacy advocates have warned
about since the start of the pandemic," Programme Director Lucie
Krahulcova told the BBC. "Such an approach will erode public trust in
future health responses and therefore impede their efficacy."

Like most countries, Australia has rolled out its own contact tracing
app but uptake has been sluggish precisely because of privacy
concerns.

Singapore was among the first countries to introduce a contact tracing
app nationally in March last year.

The introduction of the token in June had sparked a rare backlash
against the government over concerns the device would be mandatory. An
online petition calling for it to be ditched has gathered some 55,000
signatures so far.

Singapore has been been one of the most successful countries in
tackling the pandemic. Despite a big outbreak among its foreign
workers early on, local infection rates have for months been close to
zero.


穀歌小姐翻譯:


新加坡向警方透露Covid隱私數據

作者：Andreas Illmer
新加坡BBC新聞



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新加坡的Covid應用程序在全國范圍內廣泛使用

新加坡已經承認其Covid聯繫人追踪程序中的數據也可以被警察訪問，這與先前
的隱私保證背道而馳。

官員此前曾明確排除該數據將用於除病毒跟踪以外的任何其他用途。

但是議會周一被告知也可以“用於刑事調查”。

將近80％的居民簽署了TraceTogether計劃，該計劃用於簽到位置。

在宣布將很快需要從超市到您的工作場所的任何物品後，自願性收受的人數有所
增加。

使用智能手機應用程序或藍牙令牌的TraceTogether程序還監視您與誰聯繫。







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新加坡的標籤追踪系統如何運作

但是，TraceTogether網站上的隱私聲明隨後在同一天進行了更新，聲明“刑事訴
訟法適用於新加坡管轄範圍內的所有數據”。

聲明寫道：“此外，我們希望與您保持透明。” “ TraceTogether數據可能會在公
民安全受到或已經受到影響的情況下使用。

“根據《刑事訴訟法》（CPC），新加坡警察部隊有權獲得任何數據，包括
TraceTogether數據，以進行刑事調查。”


“僅用於刑事調查”

週二，該國外交部長維維安· 巴拉克里希南（Vivian Balakrishnan）澄清說，在
嚴重的刑事調查案件中，不僅使用TraceTogether數據。

他說，根據中國共產黨，在這種情況下，“其他形式的敏感數據，例如電話或銀
行記錄”也將推翻其隱私法規。

Balakrishnan先生補充說，據他所知，到目前為止，在謀殺案調查中，警察只有
一次訪問過接觸者追踪數據。

這位部長強調說，“一旦大流行結束，不再需要進行聯繫追踪，我們將很樂意放
棄TraceTogether計劃。”

週一的公告雖然在社交媒體上引發了一些爭議，人們大聲疾呼政府，一些用戶發布
消息稱他們現在已經刪除了該應用程序。

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的努力。

“發現我是正確的感覺一點也不好。”


侵蝕公眾信任？



“更多的是他們覺得自己被騙了。政府多次向我們保證，TraceTogether僅用於聯
繫追踪，但現在他們突然增加了這一新警告。”

另一個人告訴英國廣播公司，他們希望可以刪除該應用程序，但是沒有它，日常
生活將是不可能的。



澳大利亞隱私監管機構數字權利觀察組織告訴英國廣播公司，他們對新加坡的消
息“極為關注”。



像大多數國家一樣，澳大利亞已經推出了自己的聯繫人跟踪應用程序，但由於隱
私問題，使用率一直很低。

去年3月，新加坡是最早在全國范圍內推出聯繫追踪應用程序的國家之一。

由於擔心該設備是強制性的，6月份引入該令牌引發了對政府的罕見反對。 迄今
為止，一份網上請願書被要求棄溝的請願書已經收集了大約55,000個簽名。

新加坡一直是解決這一流行病最成功的國家之一。儘管外來工人在早期就爆發了
大批疫情，但當地的感染率已連續數月接近零。

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