Foong Cheng Leong

Tag: Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017

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
Bread & Kaya: 2018 Malaysia Cyber-law and IT Cases PT3 – Cyber-crimes and -offences

By Foong Cheng Leong May 3, 2019 IN THIS third of a four-part series, I will discuss cyber-crime cases and other cyber offences. Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 The establishment of Cyber Courts in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court saw the growth of judgements relating to the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998. In Pendakwa Raya lwn Dato’…

May 6, 2019
Bread & Kaya: 2018 Malaysia Cyber-Law And IT Cases – Fake News, Private Information & Instant Messaging

THE change of Government after the 14th General Election saw changes to our sphere of cyber and IT laws. The new Government withdrew numerous charges under s.233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, especially against those who had allegedly spoke against the previous Government. The Anti-Fake News Act 2018 that was introduced before the 14th…

April 22, 2019
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 against sexual…

June 19, 2018