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Are there examples of it being used for other things? Not that I doubt you, I just haven’t read about that.


"The Singapore Police Force (SPF) can obtain TraceTogether data for criminal investigations, said Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan in Parliament on Monday (Jan 4)"[1]

This was a reversal from earlier promises that it would only be used for contact tracing Covid19 exposures.

[1] https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/singapore-police-f...



https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28070335 has links to instances in DE, SG, and AU.


German police have been using it to track down theft




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