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SG: Is that your name, address, phone number in the dump?

Posted on March 15, 2015 by Dissent

Grace Chng reports:

Personal information is still being improperly collected, used and disposed of, even though there is a new law to protect personal data.

Seventy organisations – especially those in retail, healthcare and property – are under investigation following complaints that they used e-mail addresses and other personal information for marketing purposes or collected identity card and other personal details without prior consent.

If found guilty under the Personal Data Protection Act, which came into effect last July, they can be fined up to $1 million.

[…]

But a recent check by The Sunday Times in the Raffles Place area found that documents containing personal information are still being thrown out in the trash from offices in high-rise buildings there.

Among other things, The Sunday Times found photocopies of passports, resumes of various professionals and details of commissions paid to property agents.

Most of the documents had the names and logos of local and foreign banks and other companies, and they included reports on industrial projects in Japan and Indonesia and project progress reports.

All were marked confidential or strictly confidential.

Read more on AsiaOne.

I bet Singapore does a stricter/better job of cracking down on this type of problem than we see here in the U.S. where most states do not have any breach notification laws covering paper records and many states do not have any laws on the books about the security of paper records.

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