Security News > 2020 > May > Singapore to require smartphone check-ins at all businesses and will log visitors' national identity numbers
Singapore will from May 12th require all businesses to adopt a system that checks visitors into and out of their premises using their smartphones, and has already made using the system compulsory before entering some venues.
Called "SafeEntry", the system is designed to enhance Singapore's coronavirus contact-tracing capabilities and requires visitors to either scan a QR code or allow their phones to be scanned to record a barcode in the national e-services app.
Singapore's Ministry of Health says the service logs names, national identity numbers and mobile phone numbers, plus the time a user entered and exited a venue.
Now the national government wants to ease those restrictions and set Singapore on a road to just-about-normal from June 1st. To get there it is telling citizens it needs SafeEntry to improve contact-tracing.
While SafeEntry will be compulsory in all businesses and for those entering public venues like shopping malls, even train stations and parks will be encouraged to display barcodes so that visitors can check in and out.