Monday, May 4, 2020

Singapore to require smartphone check-ins at all businesses and will log visitors' national identity numbers/Salesforce on Contact Tracing As a Service

Three from The Register:

Singapore to require smartphone check-ins at all businesses and will log visitors' national identity numbers
Even parks and train stations encouraged to use QR codes. Which may show the limits of Bluetooth contact-tracing!
Singapore will from May 12th require all businesses to adopt a system that checks visitors into and out of their premises using their smartphones, and has already made using the system compulsory before entering some venues.
Called “SafeEntry”, the system is designed to enhance Singapore's coronavirus contact-tracing capabilities and requires visitors to either scan a QR code or allow their phones to be scanned to record a barcode in the national e-services app....MORE
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Contact-tracing is basically CRM so we think we've got it sorted, says Salesforce
Coming real soon now as-a-service. Details on data collection and price? Coming soon, promise
Salesforce has created a contact-tracing as-a-service product and promised it’s coming real soon now.
The SaaS company will offer the service as part of a new Work.com platform that includes a variety of services aimed at helping businesses to re-open safely in a coronavirus-compromised world.
Rob Seaman, senior vice-president for healthcare and life sciences at Salesforce said, in a very ShinyHappy™ video, that the company feels it can offer contact-tracing because: “It’s actually quite a bit like CRM.”...MORE
And:

UK COVID-19 contact-tracing app data may be kept for 'research' after crisis ends, MPs told
Want to opt out of that part? No chance, says NHSX chief
Britons will not be able to ask NHS admins to delete their COVID-19 contact-tracking data from government servers, digital arm NHSX's chief exec Matthew Gould admitted to MPs this afternoon.
Gould also told Parliament's Human Rights Committee that data harvested from Britons through NHSX's COVID-19 contact tracing app would be "pseudonymised" - and appeared to leave the door open for that data to be sold on for "research"....MORE
I'm starting to feel a bit anti-social
There used to be an ASBO for that.