eWEEK‘s Larry Seltzer posted an opinion piece saying that surveillance cameras that monitor public places don’t violate anyone’s privacy because nobody has an expectation of privacy out on the street.While this may seem like a timely debate about freedom versus security given the current circumstances, check out my earlier post on this issue dating back… Read More »
A reader wrote in to the Straits Times forum today arguing that press freedom is a non-issue in the Internet age. I reproduce here the letter in its entirety, so you can draw your own conclusions.I REFER to the recent reports and letters on press freedom, or the lack of it, in Singapore.Given today’s borderless… Read More »
The Economist reported that British lawmakers have handed Tony Blair a stinging defeat, opposing a government proposal to extend to 90 days the period for which police can hold terror suspects without charging them. In America and Australia too, anti-terror measures are causing controversy as governments struggle to reach the right balance between liberty and… Read More »
To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew’s Prisonis an excellent study of the conceit and deceit of a man many Singaporeans thought they knew. The author, Francis Seow, is a former solicitor general and president of the Law Society in Singapore. This is his first-hand account of how he has suffered under… Read More »
Since the last piece, I have been told, discreetly, by various people that I should ease off the pedal a bit lest some men in white/blue (or any colour in between) decides to nip the “problem” in the bud. Such was the irrational fear amongst the general population that you often see people survey the… Read More »
Any one caught the TV commercial on the Siemens Xelibri phones? Imagine a time in future when a simple phone call would get a litterbug, a jaywalker, or for that matter, any one who has stepped over the official line arrested in no time, a la “Minority Report”. Casting aside the moral justification for such… Read More »