Widely and intensively used digital technologies have been an important feature of international responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. One especially interesting class of such technologies are dedicated contact and tracing apps collecting proximity data via the Bluetooth technology. In this article, I consider the development, deployment and imagined uses of apps in two countries: Singapore, a pioneer in the field, with its TraceTogether app, and Australia, a country that adapted Singapore’s app, devising its own COVIDSafe, as key to its national public health strategy early in the crisis. What is especially interesting about these cases is the privacy concerns the apps raised, and how these are dealt with in each country, also the ways in which each nation reimagines its immediate social future and health approach via such an app.

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新加坡和澳大利亚的 COVID-19 应用程序：用数字技术重新构想健康国家

广泛和密集使用的数字技术一直是国际应对 COVID-19 大流行的一个重要特征。一类特别有趣的此类技术是通过蓝牙技术收集接近度数据的专用联系人和跟踪应用程序。在这篇文章中，我考虑了应用程序在两个国家的开发、部署和想象用途：该领域的先驱新加坡及其 TraceTogether 应用程序和澳大利亚，一个改编新加坡应用程序的国家，设计了自己的 COVIDSafe，作为关键其在危机初期的国家公共卫生战略。这些案例特别有趣的是应用程序提出的隐私问题，以及每个国家如何处理这些问题，以及每个国家通过此类应用程序重新构想其近期社会未来和健康方法的方式。