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  • Bread & Kaya: 2018 Malaysia Cyber-Law And IT Cases – Cyber-Defamation

    By Foong Cheng Leong April 26, 2019 In cyber-defamation cases, the High Court has granted damages between RM50K to RM100K Court assumes that you have published something if it originates from your email, Facebook, etc IN THIS second, of a four-part series, I will talk about the rise of cyber-defamation. The number of cyber-related tort cases filed…

  • Cyber Laws Cases

    I assisted the Bar Council Cyber Laws Committee to prepare this of cases relating to cyber laws. This list is taken from my draft manuscript for my next book “Information Technology and Cyber Laws of Malaysia“. This list is intended to assist practitioners and members of the public in understanding cyber laws and information technology laws…

  • Bread & Kaya: Dear Attorney General Tommy Thomas, we need to speak about our Malaysia cyberlaw and IT laws reforms

    By Foong Cheng Leong | Jun 22, 2018 – Act is clearly against the very fundamental principal of “innocent until proven guilty” – Need law to curb creation of fake news, especially if created to stoke racial or religious sentiments Repeal of 114A of Evidence Act 1950 WHEN s. 114A was introduced in the Parliament…

  • Bread & Kaya: 2017 Cyberlaw cases Pt3 – sexual offences against children and computer crimes

    By Foong Cheng Leong | Mar 30, 2018 – Sending death threats using someone else’s mobile phone is not OK – 2018 will mark interesting year for cyber related cases including Uber driver suing Uber THE first statute in Malaysia to use the term “social media” is part of the law designed to protect children…

  • Bread & Kaya: Are WhatsApp admins going to jail?

    Bread & Kaya: Are WhatsApp admins going to jail? By Foong Cheng Leong | May 02, 2017 – Two key elements in s. 233 are not fulfilled by a group chat admin – To use s. 114A to attach liability on a group chat admin is stretching s. it too far I REFER to the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Bread & Kaya: Tracing someone online

    Bread & Kaya: Tracing someone online Nov 17, 2014 – Getting the IP address is one way, but may not always be possible – On issue of defamation, Section 114A has been applied retrospectively ONE of the most difficult issues to deal with in cybercrime or cyber-bullying cases is finding the perpetrator online. My years…

  • Bread & Kaya: A look at Malaysian cyberlaw cases

    Bread & Kaya: A look at Malaysian cyberlaw cases Foong Cheng Leong Feb 17, 2014 – A summary of the plethora of Malaysian cases involving the online world in 2013 – The Government still needs to look at legislation to address many other issues Bread & Kaya by Foong Cheng Leong I HAVE been summarising…

  • 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…