Category: Social Media
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BFM Podcast: IS THE WORLD READY FOR ONLINE VOTING?
A “coding issue” resulted in the malfunctioning of a mobile app that was used to transmit and formulate the results of the Iowa caucus. A tech expert joins us to talk about what goes into the building and execution of an online voting system. Produced by: Tasha Fusil, Lee Chwi LynnPresented by: Lee Chwi Lynn,…
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Public Consultation Paper No 01/2020 – Review of Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (Act 709) [14 – 28 February 2020]
Personal Data Protection Commissioner has issued the above consultation paper on 14 February 2020 to obtain feedback on the proposed amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act 2010. Notably, the Commissioner is intending to introduce a data breach notification requirement, civil action against data user, right of data user to make first direct marketing call…
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Introducing Lexscout!
Lexscout is a new legal information service provider in Malaysia. It is a result of a joint venture between Burgielaw and I. The main features of this search engine are the unreported judgment search and lawsuit search. The judgement search allows users to search more than 14,000 legal case judgments of the Malaysia Subordinate Courts up…
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Seminar on Franchise Law on 18 March 2020
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Bread & Kaya: Malaysia’s first digital currency court case
By Foong Cheng Leong December 17, 2019– Digital currencies can be used to raise funds, make purchases or traded online– Anyone operating a digital assets exchange platform must obtain approval from the SC DIGITAL currencies are a form of digital asset. They can be used to raise funds, purchase goods or services and even traded…
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Key updates on Malaysia’s Franchise Laws
By Foong Cheng Leong & Hee Pau Ling The Franchise (Amendment) Bill 2019 (“Bill”) has been passed by the Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives) on 3 December 2019 [Postscript: The Bill received its Royal Assent on 20 February 2020 and published in the Gazette on 6 March 2020]. The Bill seeks to amend the Franchise…
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BFM Podcast: FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE A THREAT TO HUMAN RIGHTS?
A new report by Amnesty International has warned that Facebook and Google’s omnipresent surveillance of billions of people poses a systemic threat to human rights. Is it time for a radical transformation of the tech giants’ core business model? Produced by: Juliet JacobsPresented by: Tee Shiao Eek, Juliet Jacobs, Sharmilla Ganesan
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LexisNexis Malaysia – The Lawsome Profession
I was featured in LexisNexis Malaysia’s Lawsome Profession series. This series features interviews of Malaysian lawyers in their respective professions. Interested to know more about #IntellectualProperty and #Cyberlaw ? Foong Cheng Leong is the Partner at Foong Cheng Leong & Co. He focuses in the areas of Intellectual Property and Information Technology, Cyberlaw, Franchising, Data Privacy and Gaming Law.…
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Cops can’t simply check your phones, says ex-IGP
I was quoted by FreeMalaysiaToday regarding newspaper reports about the Deputy Home Minister Azis Jamman’s answer in Parliament regarding police powers to inspect public’s mobile phone. He was reported to have said that police personnel are allowed to inspect public’s mobile phone at any time and on what reasonable ground that allows such action. For…
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BFM Podcast: I DUNNO, I’M JUST FORWARDING
India wants to monitor, intercept and track WhatsApp messages in a bid to curb the spread of misinformation. As you can imagine, this has caused quite the furore but you might be interested to know that some good could also come from the move. Produced by: Sumitra Selvaraj Presented by: Tee Shiao Eek, Sumitra Selvaraj,…