More than four years after the Singapore government indicated that it was reviewing the country's data protection regime and assessing suitable frameworks, the end is still nowhere in sight.The Ministry for Information, Communications and the Arts (Mica) informed ZDNet Asia in an e-mail last week that work on Singapore's data protection system is still in progress.
"The Inter-Ministry Committee examined the need for a general data protection law in Singapore, the experience in other jurisdictions that have enacted similar laws, its implications on consumers, businesses and our national interests, and how such a regime should be formulated to fit Singapore's context," a Mica spokesperson said in reference to the progress made since January 2009. Full story
