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Comment: Transparency lessons learned from Singapore's contact-tracing controversy

By Jet Damazo-Santos
  • 05 Feb 2021 03:45
  • 07 Feb 2021 22:26
“We are not trying to set a precedent here,” the Singaporean minister in charge of the country’s Covid-19 contact-tracing system told parliament earlier this week, as he urged them to pass an urgent bill limiting the police’s ability to use to the data to seven serious offenses.
Vivian Balakrishnan was

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Jet Damazo-Santos

Correspondent, Jakarta


Jet Damazo-Santos has been covering antitrust, data protection and other compliance issues in key jurisdictions in Southeast Asia for MLex full time since 2018. She has almost two decades of journalism experience in the Philippines and Indonesia, where she was the associate editor for the Jakarta Globe and the Jakarta bureau chief for Rappler Indonesia prior to joining MLex. She holds a master's degree in Applied Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific.

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