Data Privacy

Impact of AI on jobs: Substitution or displacement?
Brookings Institution notes every tech shift tends to create more jobs than it destroys Pikom maps out four courses of action, including to equip workforce with AI-related skills
The future of personal data sharing: Data wallets and empowered users
Data wallets allow individuals to securely manage, share, maintain personal data Will lead to data ecosystems, and economy where personal data is willingly traded
Lazada and YesWeHack strengthen Bug Bounty partnership at HITBSecCONF2022 Singapore
Since 2021, worked with over 45k ethical hackers to detect flaws Voluntarily disabled some security mechanisms for participating researchers
The Problem of Digital Rights: "We are still 30 years in the past"
Issue of Digital Rights yet to be clearly defined, says founder of The IO Foundation Technological innovation needed so govt policies can leverage on solutions
WhatsApp with data privacy?
Rescinds ultimatum related to terms of service after public outcry "Data protection laws still playing catch up", common middle ground
Digerati50: Meet Prof Irene Ng - economic hacker
Creating more democratic, private world for personal data by ‘hacking economics’ HAT microserver lets you keep your data, sharing with permission via contracts
CityDash: Using GPS pings to track the spread of Covid
Originally tracked people-movement for city infrastructure projects Uses anonymised GPS pings to track movement, can also be repurposed for public health
Dzof Azmi: My Fave 5 of 2019
A handful of Malaysian flavours that tantalise, promise and hopefully deliver.
Cloud Expo Asia 2019: Singapore keen for ICT SMEs to embrace the cloud
Through Cloud Expo Asia 2019 Singapore hopes to convince more of its SMEs to adopt cloud technologies. 
MCMC reviewing Personal Data Protection Act
To bring the PDPA in line with international requirements of other data protection laws, including GDPR.
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