Deriving JoTeo's NRIC

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 ...

Digital Colonialism

Kwet first speaks about economic domination, where US Big Tech companies like Uber are dominating the market in the Global South [1]. He laments that usage of these products will "create technological dependencies" leading to "perpetual resource extraction" [2]. It is indeed true that the ...

Challenges with Aadhaar

The case involved the death of an 11 year old girl due to starvation. The government had put in place a new Aadhaar digital identity system and the people had to biometrically verify their identity and register through a "seeding process" to be eligible to claim benefits such as subsidized ...

Big Tech and Surveillance

The "false trade-off" in Solove's words is also known as a false dichotomy. The public is misled into choosing one of two unappealing options when there could be other viable alternatives. Solove believes that the optimal solution may be to grant the government the ability to conduct ...

Big Tech and Persuasion

Zuboff believes that Big Tech has the capability to process large volumes of consumer behavioural data and use that to influence consumer behaviour [1]. According to Zuboff, this data is able to reveal what "a particular individual in a particular time and place was thinking, feeling, and ...

Content Filters and Parenting

I agree with Doctorow's main argument as well. With today's technology, content filtering is done on a best effort basis and it is highly likely that certain adult content will inevitably slip through the filters. Hence, good parenting is equally important to educate the child about ...

Regulating Recommenders

Cobbe believes that it is important to regulate recommenders because they play a key role in promoting content to a "large audience" and thus has a larger impact [1]. This makes sense considering over 400 hours of video content is uploaded onto Youtube every minute [2], which makes regulating ...

Privacy in SG's Constitution

Singapore does not have the right to privacy in her constitution. I find her case particularly interesting because Singapore was a British colony up until 1958. The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), of which the UK is a signatory, came into force in 1953 [1]. It would be interesting ...