Facebook claims personal data exposed through scraping

Refutes claims 530 million users’ social media pages accessed through hacking. Social media giant, Facebook has released a statement rebutting claims personal user data was accessed through hacking. According to Mike Clark product management director at Facebook, on April 3 Business Insider published a story saying that information from more…

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Bank Indonesia strengthens financial digitalisation

Develops retail payment system infrastructure and standardised open API. Bank Indonesia (BI) has accelerated the digitalisation of the national economy and finance through the development of a real- time and round-the-clock retail payment system infrastructure with BI FAST, and the preparation of Open Application Programming Interfaces (Open API) Standards for Payments industry players. Both initiatives are implementations of the Blueprint Indonesia…

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Singapore amends Postal Services Act to support digital initiatives

Amendments will bring convenience to level the playing field for logistics providers. The Singapore Government will support the growth of e-commerce and the resultant increased use of the postal network for e-commerce items. The Ministry of Communications & Information (MCI) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) updated the Postal…

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