Stronger penalties for data breaches, more opportunities for legitimate data uses as Parliament passes changes to the PDPA

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Parliament passed changes to the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) on Monday (Nov 2), including an amendment allowing organizations to use data without consent in more cases, as well as tougher penalties for data breaches . Under the PDPA’s “exceptions to the consent requirement”, organizations can now use, …

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55 arrested for theft of 2020 budget grocery coupons

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Fifty-five people have been arrested so far for stealing Budget 2020 grocery vouchers, the minister said in the official Prime Minister and Second Finance Minister Indranee Rajah in parliament on Monday (November 2). While about 150,000 sets of vouchers, each worth $ 150, were sent by registered …

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