Tag: Digital News Asia

  • Bread & Kaya: Looks can be deceiving!

    My 3rd issue of Bread and Kaya was published by Digital News Asia on 7 March 2013. Bread & Kaya: Looks can be deceiving! – Under Malaysian laws, what amounts to obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive in character is quite wide – Sessions Court decisions perhaps the reasons why Section 114A of the Evidence…

  • 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…

  • Anonymity, is your time up?

    A. Asohan, my fellow comrade from the Stop 114A Committee, quoted me in his article in Digital News Asia regarding internet anonymity. I am an advocate of privacy rights and to me certainly would extend to online privacy. We now live in a world where enterprises are hungry for personal data to be exploited commercially.…

  • Govt stealthily gazettes Evidence Act amendment, law is now in operation

    I was quoted by Digital News Asia on what internet users and website owners should do in view that the Evidence (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2012 is in force. A. Asohan Aug 08, 2012 Controversial law has been in effect since July 31 after ‘stealth’ move by Govt Civil society continues its struggle to see…

  • Evidence Act: An issue to be solved technically, not legally: MOL

    I was briefly quoted in this article by Digital News Asia. Evidence Act: An issue to be solved technically, not legally: MOL Edwin YappJul 06, 2012 MOL Friendster Hotspots says tech should be used to address anonymity on the Net, not the law Changes to the controversial Malaysian Evidence Act do not affect network facilities…