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Extraordinary circumstances call for extraordinary measures, and so two of the biggest tech companies in the world are actually working together to face down the global pandemic.
Last month saw Apple and Google launching software that will allow public health authorities and governments to create or enhance mobile apps that could detect and notify users if they may have gotten into contact with someone who tested positive for the coronavirus.
This “exposure notification” tool, however, isn’t being used in Singapore — despite the Government Technology Agency (GovTech) having built their own contact-tracing app TraceTogether. It’s something that Workers’ Party figure and Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) Gerald Giam pondered in a blog post yesterday (June 14).
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