Singapore passes law to use Covid tracing in criminal probes

A worker shows the TraceTogether contact-tracing phone app on his smartphone at the Westlite Mandai worker dormitory in Singapore on Aug 31, 2020. - Bloomberg

SINGAPORE (Bloomberg): Singapore passed legislation that will allow the government to use Covid-19 tracing data in certain criminal investigations, formaliSing legal powers that had sparked unusual controversy.

The government introduced its TraceTogether technology last year during the early months of the pandemic, promising the data collected would be used only for coronavirus containment.