Bill introduces stiffer penalties for unauthorised use of contact-tracing data

Singapore

PENALTIES for the unauthorised use or disclosure of personal contact-tracing data will be more severe than in prevailing laws governing public-sector data, under an amendment Bill introduced in Parliament on Monday.

The Bill amends the Covid-19 (Temporary Measures) Act, to formalise the government's earlier assurances that TraceTogether data may be accessed by the police only for specified serious offences.

It adds the formal provision that after the pandemic ends, public agencies will have to delete all …

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