Published on 14 Dec 2020

Use of TraceTogether increases to 60% as privacy concerns wane

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The Smart Nation and Digital Government Group (SNDGG) said that adoption of the TraceTogether app and tokens stand at more than 60 per cent, getting closer to the 70 per cent target required to move to Phase 3. Addressing concerns about battery drain, SNDGG said that it is constantly making refinements and updates to the app, including finetuning it to be “as power-efficient as possible”. Prof Ang Peng Hwa from NTU’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information said that battery drain by the app could increase in a crowded place, as the app will use energy to send and receive signals from other phones nearby. He suggested that those who are concerned about this use the tokens instead.

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