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Singapore blocks access to East Asia Forum for second time over POFMA order

David Bale2 weeks ago04 mins

SINGAPORE: Internet service providers in Singapore have been ordered to block access to the Australia-based academic website East Asia Forum over what authorities said was non-compliance with a correction direction by the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) Office. The Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) and Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) announced this on…

Commentary: Rethinking the Singapore NRIC isn’t just a tech problem. It’s a cultural one

David Bale1 month ago04 mins

SINGAPORE: She loves me. She loves me not. She loves me. She loves me not. Our beloved National Registration Identity Card (NRIC) must have recently felt like a teenager entering a sea of raging hormones and feeling overwhelmed. Upon receiving an internal circular signalling a broader policy shift to gradually move away from using NRIC…

PDPC guidelines to be updated to ‘align with new policy intent’, after government said it plans to stop masking NRIC numbers

David Bale2 months ago03 mins

MDDI’s statement specifically advises against the use of NRIC numbers by individuals as passwords and the use of NRIC numbers by organisations to authenticate an individual’s identity or set default passwords, said PDPC. The commission noted that it had previously taken action against organisations which used NRIC numbers for authentication and “breached their data protection…