A bank robber making a getaway is not going to stop at a traffic light. Similarly, cybercriminals who are intending to commit serious crimes will definitely use the most secure systems available to them regardless of the legality. Thus, the pertinent question is whether such a law can be ...

There is no clear definition of software. However, one of the more helpful definitions is the definition in the Model Provisions on the Protection of Computer Software, where software is defined as "a set of instructions" to "perform or achieve a particular function, task or result" [1]. The ...

Denial of Service (DoS) is tricky to regulate because it involves high volume of "legitimate" traffic which stresses the target's resources [1]. Since the traffic is legitimate, what makes an act DoS is the underlying intent to exhaust the target's resources. To illustrate, web scraping also ...

MDDI recently stated that "people can make a good guess at someone's full NRIC number [...] especially if one also knows the year of birth of the person". I will attempt to make a good guess at Minister Josephine Teo's NRIC based on available information. I will be working off this set of ...

I believe one of the most difficult challenges is that user generated content is unstructured in nature. An individual can post about his family trip, which would constitute personal data [1]. He could also post a poem, which would be intellectual property [2]. This has numerous implications ...

I believe that abuse of a search engine's dominant market position is one of the most egregious issues today. van Eijk argues that dominant search engines could unfairly exclude certain parties in their search results, treat their own services preferentially and exert excessive control over the ...

As we see, historically, legislation has had a major impact in either encouraging or discouraging new payment systems. The negative impacts of EMD1 on the EU eMoney market (despite best intentions) resulted in a new piece of legislation, EMD2, to try and correct the issues it caused. With the ...

I think it is important to make a distinction between trader and consumer in order to establish a balance between consumer protection and ownership rights. The Sales of Good Act (SoGA) 1979 makes clear distinction [1], requiring that traders ensure 'satisfactory quality' and 'fitness for a ...