The wealthy and ‘smart’ city-state of Singapore was one of the first to develop a mobile tracing app called TraceTogether during the coronavirus outbreak. It then pivoted towards developing a wearable tech device in order to reach all 5.7 million residents, brushing off concerns about privacy and surveillance. This article tracks the development of TraceTogether and engages in critical debates that have ensued around the use of the app, namely around the twin implications of privacy protection and the conduct of surveillance in a panoptic and auto-regulatory society that privileges socio-political discipline and control. With health crises and pandemics becoming more commonplace, more people around the world are being persuaded to wear some loss of privacy to trust ‘smart’ technologies to aid us in fighting enemies that are deadly and invisible. Singapore could already be offering a glimpse of how this can be done now, and in the future.

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新加坡的追踪监控和自动监管：对 COVID-19 的“智能”反应

在冠状病毒爆发期间，富裕而“聪明”的新加坡城邦是最早开发名为 TraceTogether 的移动追踪应用程序的国家之一。然后它转向开发可穿戴技术设备，以覆盖所有 570 万居民，消除对隐私和监控的担忧。本文跟踪了 TraceTogether 的发展，并参与了围绕该应用程序的使用而发生的批判性辩论，即围绕隐私保护的双重含义以及在享有社会政治纪律和特权的全景和自动监管社会中进行监视的双重含义。控制。随着健康危机和流行病变得越来越普遍，世界各地越来越多的人被说服放弃一些隐私，以信任“智能”技术来帮助我们对抗致命和隐形的敌人。