The complicated danger of surveillance states
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 15, 2022
Chin: Yeah, within the same year, the police were using that technology to track suspects, and they basically openly said: “Well, we changed our minds.”
Lin: And there was a public pushback to that. And now they stopped doing it. It’s just an example of how easily one use can lead to another.
The pushback led the Singaporean parliament to pass a bill in February 2021 to restrict police use of TraceTogether data. State forces are still able to access the data now, but they need to go through a . . .
