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Singapore announces upcoming measures in 2023 to tackle online crimes, harmful content on app stores and online games and the security of virtualised systems and AI systems.
Regulatory & Compliance
Data Protection & Cybersecurity
Media & Entertainment
Technology
TMT

Singapore Announces Upcoming Measures to Enhance Online Safety

Date
Apr 18, 2023
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The Singapore High Court held an employer vicariously liable for copyright infringement by an employee seeking to improve his workplace skills using unauthorised software.
Intellectual Property
Commercial
Employment

Employer Held Vicariously Liable for Employee Copyright Infringement

Date
Apr 10, 2023
Author
OrionW
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Singapore will progressively require all employment pass holders to score at least 40 points under COMPASS, a new points-based system for evaluating applications and renewals.
Employment
Regulatory & Compliance

Overview of COMPASS—the Complementarity Assessment Framework for Employment Pass Applications

Date
Apr 7, 2023
Author
OrionW
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The UK Government has issued a white paper proposing a framework for regulating artificial intelligence that emphasises a pro-innovation, proportionate, adaptable and largely decentralised approach.
Technology
International Updates
Regulatory & Compliance
TMT

UK Government Issues White Paper on Regulating AI

Date
Apr 5, 2023
Author
OrionW
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore has issued a Notice imposing new due diligence requirements on corporate finance advisers and their representatives. The Notice also includes measures to mitigate potential conflicts of interest.
Regulatory & Compliance
Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

MAS Imposes Due Diligence and Business Conduct Requirements on Corporate Finance Advisers

Date
Feb 28, 2023
Author
OrionW
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore has issued a circular revising its expectations for being notified by licensed insurers when a data breach occurs.
Data Protection & Cybersecurity
InsurTech
Regulatory & Compliance

MAS Issues Circular Revising Data Breach Notification Expectations for Licensed Insurers

Date
Feb 28, 2023
Author
OrionW
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The Online Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2022, which commenced on 1 February 2023, empowers the IMDA to issue directions and disable access to egregious content on online communication services.
TMT
Media & Entertainment
Regulatory & Compliance
Technology

Singapore Introduces New Online Safety Provisions to Tackle Online Egregious Content

Date
Feb 17, 2023
Author
OrionW
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The Singapore government announced that COVID-19 safe management measures will be fully lifted from 13 February 2023. This insight provides an update of the changes at the workplace setting.
Employment
Regulatory & Compliance
COVID-19

Lifting of Safe Management Measures at the Workplace

Date
Feb 12, 2023
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OrionW
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Proposed amendments will enable companies and trusts to conduct meetings of members and unitholders with greater flexibility, efficiency and convenience through the use of virtual meeting technology.
Corporate
COVID-19
Regulatory & Compliance

Consultation Proposes to Permit Meetings of Company Members to Be Conducted by Electronic Means

Date
Feb 10, 2023
Author
OrionW
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