Foong Cheng Leong

Tag: Cyber Security Bill 2024

Bread & Kaya 2023: Noteworthy cyberlaw cases in 2023

2023 was the year where many lawyers started to experiment with ChatGPT in their legal practice. In fact, some parts of this article were drafted with the assistance of ChatGPT where I had used it to summarise my cases below. However, many parts were imprecise and had to be corrected. These cases are additions to…

November 24, 2024
Impact of the Cyber Security Act 2024 on the Cyber Security Industry

I am happy to share this article I co-authored with my former intern Joanne Wong Min Min. This article was initially published as one of my Bread & Kaya articles on Digital News Asia. We expanded it for it to be published by Sweet & Maxwell in its The Law Review 2024.

November 2, 2024
Bread & Kaya: Impact of the Cyber Security Bill 2024 on the Cybersecurity Industry in Malaysia

By Foong Cheng Leong and Joanne Wong Min Min June 23, 2024 On 3 April 2024, the Cyber Security Bill 2024 (hereinafter referred to as the Bill or Act) was passed by Parliament. The Bill will be presented for Royal Assent and subsequently gazetted into law. (References to any sections herein shall be in reference…

July 16, 2024
Concerns of ‘overreach’ plaguing the new bill

I was interviewed by The Star on the new Cyber Security Bill 2024 (CSB). I said the following- Foong Cheng Leong, writer and lawyer specialising in privacy and data protection laws, cautions that the broad powers granted to the chief executive (CE) of the National Cyber Security Agency under the Act should be tightened to…

May 20, 2024