Tag: 114a evidence act
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Bread & Kaya: How the ‘new’ Sedition Act affects netizens
Bread & Kaya: How the ‘new’ Sedition Act affects netizens By Foong Cheng Leong Apr 08, 2015 – As with Section 114A, website hosts and FB page owners can be held liable – Particularly thorny are comments left by others on your portal BY the time you read this article, the Sedition (Amendment) Bill 2015…
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Bread & Kaya: Malaysian cyberlaw cases in 2014
2014 was another interesting year in cyberspace for Malaysia’s legal fraternity. Numerous sedition investigations and charges were made against statements made online and offline. Notably, Twitter user @wonghoicheng was charged under Section 504 of the Penal Code and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 for “deliberately humiliating and provoking” Inspector-General of Police…
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BFM Podcast: Sedition, Porn and Torrents
I was interviewed by BFM Radio to talk about the regulation of social media space in Malaysia on 17 February 2015. The Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar recently cautioned Malaysians to be mindful of what they post on social media platforms like twitter in order not to get on the wrong…
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Netizens v the Government
2012 saw the intensified battle between netizens and the authorities. The former desires protection of their right to freedom of expression and anonymity whereas the latter desires control and governance. Through this battle, the authorities introduced many new legislations to govern the use of internet. In July 2012, the Malaysian Government enforced s. 114A of…
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GE13 Candidates and 114A
Published on LoyarBurok on 16 April 2013. I am no expert in election laws but GE13 Candidates should take note of this. If you are running a blog, I suggest you moderate or close the comments section until and after the 13th General Election. The reason why I say so is because s.114A(1) of the…
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Bread & Kaya: Attention e-commerce businesses: Fraud, the law and you
My Bread & Kaya’s second column was published on Digital News Asia on 29 January 2013. Attention e-commerce businesses: Fraud, the law and you Jan 29, 2013 – A new law to protect users of online trading portals goes into effect July 1 – While it may cost them a bit, operators of such businesses…
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Podcast: Onus is on you to prove your cyber innocence
I was interviewed by Malaysiakini in their podcast recently on the Evidence (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012. For our 15th Middle Malaysia podcast, we speak to Foong Cheng Leong, co-chair of the KL Bar IT Committee, about the new amendments to the Evidence Act. It was Foong who first broke the news about the new…
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Lets Talk – Amendments To The Evidence Act 1950
I was recently interviewed by The Malaysian Observer.TV (also known as www.mobtv.my), an internet TV portal. You can see the video below. The new amendments to the Evidence Act 1950 that Parliament passed in April might force an innocent party to show that he is not the publisher. Vicims of stolen identity or hacking would…