Security News > 2020 > June > Singapore to distribute wearable contact-tracing device and won't rule out making it compulsory

Singapore will introduce a wearable device to assist with COVID-19 contact tracing and the minister responsible won't rule out making it compulsory.

Vivian Balakrishnan, the minister-in-charge of Singapore's Smart Nation Initiative, said the device is necessary because uptake of Singapore's contact-tracing TraceTogether app has stalled at around 25 per cent of Singapore's population.

The device quickly proved controversial because it was announced late last week with little detail about its capabilities or whether usage would be compulsory.

Balakrishnan was at pains yesterday to say that the wearable is not a tracking device.

Balakrishnan did not rule out making the device compulsory.

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