SINGAPORE - SURVEILLANCE STATE

https://www.digitalnewsasia.com/digital-economy/singapore-is-using-spyware-and-its-citizens-cant-complain #WikiLeaks #HackingTeam #Singapore - #Surveillance state, NO: *privacy right *prior judicial auth. req. (leg'n) #Law #Privacy #Singapore regulatory structure re #surveillance = Executive branch controlled / little judicial oversight #Singapore #SURVEILLANCE incls: CCTV drones Internet / comm. / access SIM card reg. ID req. register websites big data analytics #Singapore #SURVEILLANCE 'PacketShape'  {Blue Coat Systems Inc, USA-based provider} monitoring various, incl: Facebook Twitter Google Mail Skype #Singapore * Has NOT ratified: International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR) https://www.digitalnewsasia.com/digital-economy/singapore-is-using-spyware-and-its-citizens-cant-complain --------------------- COMMENT Mass surveillance must be a given in a country like Singapore, with no constitutional or other legislative checks on monitoring of citizens (and no ratification of the human rights covenant, either). The degree of surveillance and the lack of civil rights goes back to colonial rule.   --------------------- Modern Singapore founded in 1819 as British colony (by Sir Stamford Raffles) wikipedia