There is major difference between how sinapor and tiongkok are governed; SG is a democracy where pappies can get decimated in a GE whereas TK is a communist country, no GE, one political party holding power in perpetuity.
No one can blame CCP for tightening control over the massive population to curb and eradicate the oppies to their rule. Using latest high tech, covert operations, etc is their tools in exercising this control.
The pappies apparently are seen as "tagging" or "controlling" residents in the country but it is all done for the sake of disease control and crime prevention purposes. Any one not engaging in treason to sabotage security of SG should not be afraid of this tagging and controlling. Criticism hurled at the pappies for being stupid and idiotic is not an act of treason.
In reality, such criticism serves to remind pappies the wrongs done to locals by treating foreign shits such as PR and holders of shitty professional permits as special species while locals are trampled by these foreign shits like dirt.