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Mixed reactions from netizens over Education Minister’s move to equip all secondary school students with a personal laptop or tablet by 2021

All secondary school students will be equipped with a personal laptop or…

Former NCMP Yee Jenn Jong supports Gerald Giam’s call to adopt Apple-Google contact tracing system, says modifying TraceTogether app is much faster and cheaper

The centralised approach would give the Government “better control”, but modifying the…

Assoc Prof Hallam Stevens and Asst Prof Monamie Bhadra Haines: Wearables and Privacy

by Hallam Stevens (Associate Professor of History at NTU and Associate Director (Academic)…

WP’s Gerald Giam urges Govt to adopt Apple-Google contact tracing system; Vivian Balakrishnan says it’s less effective in local context

The Government should re-programme the TraceTogether app to adopt Apple and Google’s…

S’pore-based electronics manufacturer PCI secures bid to make GovTech’s TraceTogether Tokens

A Singapore-based electronics manufacturer has won a S$6 million tender for TraceTogether…

Twitter deletes Chinese ‘state-linked’ disinformation network

by Jerome Taylor Twitter said Friday it had deleted more than 170,000…

Zoom accedes to Chinese demands to shutter online activist meetings

Zoom said Thursday it acceded to Chinese government demands that it close…

Shuttered Zoom accounts raise China free speech fears

by Yan Zhao with Shaun Tandon in Washington Several Zoom meetings involving…

Microsoft joins rivals, bars police use of face recognition tech

Microsoft on Thursday joined its Big Tech rivals in announcing it would…

TraceTogether app was inspired by US high school project, GovTech invited student to support its development

With doubts and questions revolving around the TraceTogether mobile application that was…