Proof that governments can delete data on their citizens instead of constantly spying.
(Cries in American)
I don’t think Singapore is the best example of not spying on its citizens.
We’re pretty good at deleting voting data :/
Oh, we had that too!
Where’s the proof though? It’s easy to say you’ve deleted data.
What’s more, 3rd parties could have had access to the data, even if only to provide the service, and that’s just another party you’re blindly trusting.
The cat is long since out the bag. The sooner we make raw data freely available to everyone the better - that’s certainly a more realistic hope than controlling data access or even getting businesses to pay people for the data they steal from them.
Ideally the data would have been useless anyways as it wasnt really necessary for automated contact-tracing to keep it identifiable for government agencies.
See DP-3T (Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing) standardBecause they have already collected all the necessary data and probably fed it to various systems like AI and even sold it to companies specializing in digital tracking. Capitalism never loses. Don’t trust, verify
