Singapore Govt. justifies COVID-19 trace app data use by the police Minister of State, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment Desmond Tan, has justified the Singapore Police Force empowerment under the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) to obtain any data, including TraceTogether (TT) data, for criminal…
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Telco breaches 50,000 customers’ privacy Australian law firm, Maurice Blackburn has brought a class action suit against SingTel Optus to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, for a breach of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). The complaint concerns the mistaken disclosure of customer data by Optus. In October 2019,…
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The Australian Information Commissioner (AIC) has been given by the Australian Federal Court to serve legal documents to US-Facebook and Facebook Ireland. According to the “Federal Court the material demonstrates a genuine argument about contravention, sufficient to justify causing the respondents to be subject to the litigation in Australia where…
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