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Singapore to test facial recognition on lampposts, stoking privacy fears - 0 views

www.todayonline.com/...ampposts-stoking-privacy-fears

ITGS privacy anonymity facial recognition lamposts

shared by dr tech on 14 Apr 18 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 14 Apr 18
     
    "SINGAPORE - In the not too distant future, surveillance cameras sitting atop over 100,000 lampposts in Singapore could help authorities pick out and recognise faces in crowds across the island-state. The plan to install the cameras, which will be linked to facial recognition software, is raising privacy fears among security experts and rights groups. The government said the system would allow it to "perform crowd analytics" and support anti-terror operations."
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'Dystopian world': Singapore patrol robots stoke fears of surveillance state | Singapor... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ke-fears-of-surveillance-state

ITGS facial recognition singapore robots surveillance state

shared by dr tech on 07 Oct 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 07 Oct 21
     
    "Singapore has trialled patrol robots that blast warnings at people engaging in "undesirable social behaviour", adding to an arsenal of surveillance technology in the tightly controlled city-state that is fuelling privacy concerns."
dr tech

Self-driving taxis roll out in Singapore - beating Uber to it | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...n-singapore-beating-uber-to-it

singapore ITGS peopleandmachines ai autonomous car

shared by dr tech on 27 Aug 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 27 Aug 16
     
    "In fact the $60bn multinational has just been scooped by Nutonomy, a small MIT spin-out whose electric self-driving cabs have already started picking up real customers in a Singapore business park. Initially, riders will use Nutonomy's own app to summon hail a Mitsubishi i-Miev or a Renault Zoe, ramping up to a dozen vehicles in the coming months."
yeehaw

Singapore Police Force can obtain TraceTogether data for criminal investigations: Desmo... - 0 views

www.channelnewsasia.com/...ogether-data-covid-19-13889914

ITGS surveillance privacy security

shared by yeehaw on 04 Jan 21 - No Cached
  • yeehaw on 04 Jan 21
     
    "The Singapore Police Force (SPF) can obtain TraceTogether data for criminal investigations"
immapotaeto

Apple partners with Singapore to encourage fitness with Apple Watch - 1 views

www.cnbc.com/...-fitness-with-apple-watch.html

ITGS apple singapore health

shared by immapotaeto on 18 Sep 20 - No Cached
  • immapotaeto on 18 Sep 20
     
    "They can then sign up to earn one-time rewards of up to $380 Singapore Dollars - about U.S. $280 "
dr tech

Cheers launches first unmanned, cashless store in Singapore - Channel NewsAsia - 0 views

www.channelnewsasia.com/...ess-store-in-singapore-9072076

ITGS peopleandmachines singapore store data mining video analytics

shared by dr tech on 29 Jul 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 29 Jul 17
     
    "The store will also utilise data and video analytics to analyse purchasing behaviour and customise its inventory. An auto-ordering system eliminates the need to manually track and order stocks."
dr tech

Coronavirus: Singapore develops smartphone app for efficient contact tracing, Singapore... - 0 views

www.straitstimes.com/...-for-efficient-contact-tracing

ITGS app people and machines COVID-19 smartphone surveillance

shared by dr tech on 21 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 21 Mar 20
     
    "Dubbed TraceTogether, the app is able to identify people who have been in close proximity - within 2m for at least 30 minutes - to coronavirus patients using wireless Bluetooth technology, said its developers, the Government Technology Agency (GovTech) and the Ministry of Health (MOH), on Friday (March 20)."
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Singapore looks to ease privacy fears with 'no internet' wearable device | ZDNet - 0 views

www.zdnet.com/...th-no-internet-wearable-device

ITGS privacy and anonymity surveillance COVID 19 smartphone app bluetooth

shared by dr tech on 10 Jun 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 10 Jun 20
     
    "The Singapore government says the wearable device it is developing for COVID-19 contact tracing will not have GPS, internet, or cellular connectivity, so data it collects can only be extracted when it is physically handed over to a health official. These details are being offered up as the government looks to ease concerns about data privacy and drive the adoption of digital tools that can help speed up contact tracing. "
yeehaw

10 Government Data Leaks In Singapore: Prevent Cybersecurity - 1 views

www.privacy.com.sg/...rnment-data-leaks-in-singapore

ITGS peopleandmachines privacy security intellectualproperty

shared by yeehaw on 07 Nov 20 - No Cached
  • yeehaw on 07 Nov 20
     
    "The Singapore government is to establish a new Data Security Office and implement a number of measures to better safeguard citizen information, following a series of serious government data leaks.  "
dr tech

17 ransomware cases flagged to Singapore authorities this year: CSA - Channel NewsAsia - 0 views

www.channelnewsasia.com/...3394600.html

ITGS malware ransomware security privacy policiesandstandards

shared by dr tech on 28 Dec 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 28 Dec 16
     
    "That is when the alarm bells went off for Mr Ang. "I saw that there was a text file inside the encrypted folder that showed that it was ransomware, asking for payment to decrypt the files." The company decided not to pay the ransom of US$1,000 (S$1,447). Instead, it spent a week rebuilding about 3,000 infected files with data of the accounts and stocks from hard copy files."
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Singapore to work with New Zealand to tackle terrorism and violent extremism - 0 views

www.todayonline.com/...m-and-violent-extremism-pm-lee

ITGS policies and standards government and politics social media internet control freedom

shared by dr tech on 18 May 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 18 May 19
     
    "Launched in response to terror attacks in New Zealand in May, where a lone gunman killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch while livestreaming the massacre on Facebook, it calls for the "effective enforcement" of laws prohibiting the dissemination of terrorist content. It also states that all action on the issue must be consistent with the principles of a free, open and secure Internet, without compromising freedom of expression."
dr tech

Singapore to require smartphone check-ins at all businesses and will log visitors' nati... - 0 views

www.theregister.co.uk/...ntry_singapore_visitor_logging

ITGS bluetooth privacy and anonymity government and politics app smartphone covid-19

shared by dr tech on 05 May 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 05 May 20
     
    "Singapore was one of the first nations to adopt a Bluetooth-powered contact-tracing app, fueling plenty of global debate about the best way to deploy the technology. SafeEntry will advance that debate as its introduction surely suggests that contact-tracing apps have their limitations."
dr tech

The Big Read: Floundering in digital wave, older hawkers could call it quits - taking a... - 0 views

www.channelnewsasia.com/...pps-delivery-covid-19-14914316

ITGS digital divide hawker singapore

shared by dr tech on 01 Jun 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 01 Jun 21
     
    "THE DIGITAL DIVIDE The fear of losing control aside, many hawkers also have to deal with another major challenge: Digital technology, which entails some basic competence in logic and literacy - much to the horror of those who only received some primary school education, typical of the older generation of hawkers."
dr tech

About 129,000 Singtel customers' personal information, including NRIC details, stolen i... - 0 views

www.channelnewsasia.com/...formation-stolen-nric-14219268

ITGS singtel hack data privacy and anonymity security

shared by dr tech on 17 Feb 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 17 Feb 21
     
    "SINGAPORE: Personal information of about 129,000 Singtel customers was stolen after a recent data breach of a third-party file sharing system, the local telco said on Wednesday (Feb 17). Singtel has completed initial investigations into the breach and established which files on the Accellion file transfer appliance (FTA) were accessed illegally, the company said in a news release."
dr tech

Singapore healthcare provider breached, personal records of 1.5m people - including the... - 0 views

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ITGS privacy and anonymity singapore healthcare people and machines

shared by dr tech on 22 Jul 18 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 22 Jul 18
     
    "FROM THE BOING BOING SHOP   FOLLOW US Twitter / Facebook / RSS Singhealth, a Singaporean public health service, suffered the worst breach in Singaporean history, losing control of 1.5 million peoples' data; included in the breach was prescription data on 160,000 people, including Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong."
dr tech

Microsoft blocks Bing from showing image results for Tiananmen 'tank man' | Bing | The ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ing-tiananmen-tank-man-results

ITGS censorship bing search engines

shared by dr tech on 05 Jun 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 05 Jun 21
     
    "Microsoft has blamed human error after its search engine, Bing, blocked image and video results for the phrase "tank man" - a reference to the iconic image of a lone protester facing down tanks during the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square - on the 32nd anniversary of the military crackdown. Users reported that no results were shown for the search query in countries including the US, Germany, Singapore, France and Switzerland, according to Reuters and Vice News."
dr tech

Singapore deploys Spot robot to patrol parks and remind people to socially distance - T... - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...ngapore-park-social-distancing

robotos ITGS ai covid-19

shared by dr tech on 10 May 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 10 May 20
     
    "Using the robot will reduce the need for staff to patrol the grounds, says NParks, and it "lowers the risk of exposure to the virus." According to local newspaper The Straits Times, the board is also considering deploying the robot elsewhere in the city. Signs posted in the park ask visitors not to "disrupt" the robot on its patrols."
dr tech

Singapore will replace passports with iris and facial scans | Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS passport iris biometric reliability

shared by dr tech on 31 Oct 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 31 Oct 20
     
    "The Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) - which collaborated with ICA to roll out the scanning system - said in a statement that iris patterns have a higher degree of variation and uniqueness as compared to fingerprints, and are therefore "more robust and reliable.""
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