According to reportsEducation Minister Lawrence Wong said the country believes the 70% adoption could help propel it to its next reopening level, phase three, but that could only be achieved by legal constraint.
“When we have a higher acceptance rate from TraceTogether and a wider implementation of SafeEntry only from TraceTogether … and community transmission during that time is still low, then there’s a good chance we will start. phase three … at the end of the year, ”he said.
Singaporeans are already Required by law
to upload your health information through TraceTogether when the government contacts them. As a result, the tracker now indicates that the Singapore system is mandatory.
In IndiaMeanwhile, the country is making mixed progress with its massive digital contact tracing system. The Aaroyga Setu app has been downloaded over 160 million times since its launch in April and was criticized early on for its lack of transparency and its murky “volunteer” status. But the Delhi government has made progress on several fronts since then, first by making the application code open source so that it can be more easily queried by outsiders, and this week announcing that they would share the system backend code
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Its ranking for data limitations (how other agencies can use health data captured through the app) has been updated as it recently clarified its policies.
But despite these changes, trust between government and users stay low. The country’s National Computer Center did not respond or help respond to inquiries, leading to constant confusion over who developed Aarogya Setu. After review, India’s transparency rating was lowered.
In the Philippines, there has been controversy over how the app uses data. A report earlier this year He called the national application “borderline spyware” and is of particular concern that the regime of President Rodrigo Duterte, known for its support for extrajudicial killings, may use the data it collects. Since this information will be kept indefinitely, we have downgraded the country rating accordingly.
However, not all countries curtail freedoms. Several European countries were updated in the latest round of changes. Germany Yes France Both improved their ratings on data limitation with privacy policies that prevent sharing of health data with other government or law enforcement agencies. In the UK, meanwhile, the tracker has improved ratings in several areas, including throttling, data destruction and transparency.
—This story is part of the Pandemic Technology Project, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.