He gave the example of a hypothetical murder case in which relevant information was available through a TraceTogether token.
“If the police chose not to seek that information, you can imagine how the victim’s family and indeed the rest of Singapore might react to that situation,” he said.
But given that the TraceTogether programme is of “national importance” and “necessary” for dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, the police's use of data collected by TraceTogether is restricted to “very serious offences”, said Mr Shanmugam.
Fork-tongued/strawman argument. The issue is that Vivian on more than one occasion made commitments on how the token was to be used. Okay, he did not think about it but no one in the govt deem it fit to clarify? What is the definition of "very serious offences"? Or do we make it up as we go along, like the way the website was updated after Desmond Tan made his comments in parliament?