Singapore to limit police access to COVID-19 contact-tracing data
Thomson Reuters Foundation Singapore’s government has tabled a bill in parliament to allow the use of personal data from its coronavirus contact-tracing app in “serious” criminal investigations, a move aimed at addressing privacy concerns among users of such technologies. An amendment to its COVID-19 bill – presented to parliament this week – will limit the […]
Churches in Australian state of Victoria ramp up campaigns against proposed law banning gay conversion therapies
Churches in the Australian state of Victoria have ramped up a campaign against a proposed bill banning gay conversion therapies, taking out full page ads in newspapers in which they urged the State Government to retract the proposed legislation. Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020, which is due to be introduced to the […]
Forget no one: US cities use real-time data to end homelessness
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on efforts to address homelessness in the US through better collection and use of data…
Southern Baptist report calls never-Trumper Russell Moore’s agency a “significant distraction”
RNS In a long-awaited report released on Monday, a taskforce commissioned to study the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission calls the convention’s public policy arm a “significant distraction from the Great Commission work of Southern Baptists”. Blaming the ERLC for the loss of more than a million dollars in constituent church donations […]
Essay: Fear, shame and losing sleep – why young adults are struggling during the pandemic
EMMA JACKSON, director for Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Scotland, says more work is needed to address the stigma and shame that still exists around debt, especially for young adults during the “exceptionally hard” situation in which they now live…