Region: Singapore

Singapore’s data regulator has issued a strongly-worded decision criticising Eatigo’s conduct during a data breach investigation.

14 March 2023

Singapore’s High Court has ordered Capgemini to compensate Razer for damages it incurred – including investigation fees paid to Norton Rose Fulbright – following the IT vendor’s role in a leak of customer information.

12 December 2022

Observers say that confirmation that non-material harm caused by data breaches is actionable in Singapore is unlikely to lead to a significant uptick in litigation.

13 September 2022

Singapore’s Court of Appeal has confirmed that individuals can base data privacy lawsuits on allegations that they suffered non-material harm such as distress, despite opposition from the city-state’s attorney-general.

12 September 2022

An official from Singapore’s data protection regulator has said that competition and data authorities will need to learn to work more closely together as the two areas increasingly overlap.

26 August 2022

Bird & Bird has promoted three data protection lawyers to partner and several more to senior counsel and of counsel.

06 May 2022

Singapore’s privacy regulator has fined a hotel booking platform operator after a hack exposed the personal data of 5.9 million customers – the largest breach since the country’s data protection regime came into force.

19 November 2021

In ruling that loss of control damages are unavailable under Singapore data protection law, a judge has concluded that the legislation is less focused on privacy than its international counterparts.

04 June 2021

GDR rounds up key news from the Asia-Pacific region that you might have missed over the holidays.

07 January 2021

Singapore’s central bank and a group of major financial institutions have unveiled an open banking-style data exchange scheme.

11 December 2020