Tag: PP v Rutinin Bin Suhaimin
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Foong’s Malaysia Cyber, Electronic Evidence and Information Technology Law
I am happy to announce that my book “Foong’s Malaysia Cyber, Electronic Evidence and Information Technology Law” is available for pre-order. This is my third book. It started off with a compendium of cases but subsequently evolved into a textbook. It took me about a year to restructure the contents into a textbook. This book…
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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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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…
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Bread & Kaya: Sharing images of crime victims
Bread & Kaya: Sharing images of crime victims Nov 01, 2013 – No doubt the dissemination of gruesome images is distasteful and disrespectful of victims and their families – However, when the MCMC cited legislation against it, the industry regulator may have been stretching it Bread & Kaya by Foong Cheng Leong IT was with…
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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…