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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.
Singapore's announcement that it is developing a wearable for contact tracing has caused citizens to voice concern for the technology's impact on their data privacy, with more than 35,000 signing a petition against the devices. Previously, Singapore had created a contact tracing app, TraceTogether, which uses Bluetooth mobile phones' functions to detect other phones nearby and track the spread of the virus.
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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 will bin the physical tokens used to provide two-factor authentication for some digital government services. The city-state operates "SingPass", a government service that connects Singapore's residents with 200 government services.
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