The Personal Data Protection Act established a data protection law that took full effect in July 2014.

It recognises both the rights of individuals to protect their personal data, including rights of access and correction, and the needs of organisations to collect, use or disclose personal data for legitimate and reasonable purposes.

A gaming shop in Singapore has also established its own protection law that took full effect since god knows when, but it has probably proven quite effective in banning and shaming rowdy kids on their wall of shame and data disclosure:

The original tweet shows the full details of the kids' student cards, with name, NRIC and photo exposed.

We are not embedding the original tweet as we cannot censor those details.

Needless to say, there seems to be some justification for punishing a kid who played truant and was rude to his parents.

This is probably just a matter of how to carry out the punishment better to not fall foul of the existing law. (Hint: Just leave the first name and face visible.)

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