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Sinar Project is an initiative using #opensource technology, development and ideas to make Malaysian government #transparent and #accountable .
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Full digital copy of the 1MDB Audit Report (365 pages) from National Audit Department is available for download at
#govdocs
archive
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⚠️Censorship Update:
NEW:
@Grindr
website is now blocked in Malaysia on:
- TM (AS4788)
- Digi (AS4818)
- Maxis (AS9534)
- Time (AS9300)
Source:
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Need to search full text of over 400GB and growing of archived Malaysian government documents such as annual reports? Malaysian Government Document Archive or
#govdocs
is a free public project and service to make government information more accessible
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Censorship of
@Medium
by
@SKMM_MCMC
is restricting Malaysian knowledge workers from key science & technology resources online. Let us know how it affects you, by sharing your profession and a resource that is blocked by the Malaysian government.
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Written answers to Malaysian Parliamentary Questions are now published online on same day by
@ParlimenMy
website
#OpenParl
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#govdocs
is a free public service providing full text searchable online archive of important Malaysian government documents such as annual reports, speeches and forms
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site set up for Malaysian users to check if they have been affected by data leak has now been blocked by
@SKMM_MCMC
.
Help us run tests and collect evidence, by running with OONI app
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First
@torproject
OONI probe on
@Raspberry_Pi
at our office. Censorship on
@Medium
found & loggged!
#CivicHackNight
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Our work on improving government transparency doesn't stop. Developing Wakil Rakyat site and services to improve access to all of our elected representatives and their work, and hold them accountable. Hoping more join our community
#WakilRakyat
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Introducing our Human Rights Censorship Dashboards project for Southeast Asia. Join us in helping map out, test and contribute to regional and global efforts to monitor online censorship
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📢 Malaysia GE15 Internet Censorship Monitoring 🇲🇾
Join us to monitor and detect whether censorship takes place during this politically sensitive period around GE15.
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Our databases track 4,750 politically exposed persons, posts they hold and relations with others including alliances & business connections. For transparency on political elite, and anti-corruption efforts
Help support our work:
Reminder that
@NajibRazak
was not the only one involved with SRC corruption case. It takes a lot of people, and many more looking the other way to steal billions of dollars in public funds
@neo4j
@sinarproject
#Popit
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We have found evidence of blockings of
@MNowNews
website on Maxis, Celcom & Digi through
@OpenObservatory
measurements.
Help contribute to collecting more evidence:
1) Download "OONI Probe" app from Google Play Store or Apple App Store
2) Click to run.
MalaysiaNow has addressed the technical side of the problem and will soon be lodging reports with the relevant authorities.
#MalaysiaNow
#MNow
#MNowNews
#Malaysia
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"It all started when a group of IT professionals were appalled by a leaked bill that was going to pass."
#TBT
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Several thousand State Government Gazettes are now available on Malaysian Government Document Archives, thanks to the generous contribution by
@yaohualaw
(
@macarangatweets
) with funds from the Pulitzer Center's Rainforest Investigations Network fellowship
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At least 17 news and NGO sites were blocked this past election weekend in Cambodia as detected by
@OpenObservatory
tests. Now preparing a report on ISPs and sites with our Cambodian friends as rest of data comes in. Thank you to our brave friends for running the tests locally!
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NFT Fundraising Campaign Website of Malaysian Artist Fahmi Reza Blocked
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High Court decision to uphold ruling that
@SistersinIslam
can be declared a deviant organisation under Shariah Law, also means that it's website can also be ordered to be blocked by
@SKMM_MCMC
Find out about what other laws are used for online censorship
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In a healthy democracy our elected representatives represent our concerns by demanding answers from the government. With Parliament suspended until May, Malaysians currently have no such democratic representation or accountability mechanisms
#OpenParl
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.
@openspending
1MDB RM5.2Billion settlement payment is 3x the amount of budget cuts to operating expenditure of public universities
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Our databases and websites were built to store and track information on hundreds of
#WakilRakyat
over the long term.
Our 1st quarter funds appeal is now at RM1521.65/RM10,000 target.
Help support our work:
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With
@NajibRazak
arrest today, we look back at our research in 2015 in using network graphs for our popolo-spec open data on PEPs and posts/memberships on gov agencies and GLCs to show who was connected with 1MDB
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We're looking for a research intern (paid), to spend a month to help scan historical Malaysian government documents
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We are seeing reports that is being blocked by MCMC. Those with OONI Probe app please click on the link the help test and collect info on this site and others to confirm censorship
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Shahrol ex-1MDB CEO in
@NajibRazak
corruption trial seems to only be mentioning involvement of Jho Low and Najib. But who else were the Board of Directors that also help facilitate funds approval and hiding major discrepancies? We use
@neo4j
to explore our Popit PEPs database
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Malaysian Government Document Archives is a free public facility for full text searchable archive of government documents such as annual reports, speeches and forms that may no longer available online. Currently over 1400 docs or 340GB of information
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Our public
#GE14
candidate website will highlight blacklisted candidates that fail to provide basic CV, involved in corruption and hateful or discriminatory speech/behaviour
Thank you to suppporters so far, we're at RM5070/25000 as of today.
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Sinar Project is pleased to invite all stakeholders to participate in a call for comment to shape a national policy brief for Open Government for Malaysia
#opengov
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Malaysian legislative assembly documents are supposed to be free to copy and redistribute. A recent FOI request found that Selangor State doesn't have copies for budget enactments, and requires the public to purchase them from a private company
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Interested to get into investigative journalism? Applications now open to join our upcoming introductory investigative journalism workshop, along with grant opportunity in support of your first story
@Internews
@EUinMalaysia
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Want to develop your skill set in Data Journalism? Join us for this free upcoming workshop! Activists and researchers are also welcome
Registration details: by Friday, 13 November 2020.
Shortlisted participants will be notified
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Backed with sources, and Popolo-spec open data, we can easily track and generate lists of
#WakilRakyat
that have switch political parties such as those from Pakatan Harapan Coalition government to Perikatan Nasional
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Did you know that MP for Ampang Zuraida Kamaruddin
@ybz99
has been calling
#endchildmarriage
in Parliament since at least 2016?
#OpenParl
Track your representative position on
#endchildmarriage
and other issues at
#WakilRakyat
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Introducing our new project to develop online censorship dashboards covering Southeast Asia giving user friendly overview of media freedom, freedom of expression & association and more backed by latest
@OpenObservatory
data and measurements
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2018 Second half funds appeal. We're looking to raise RM25,000 to keep our office open until the end of the year and add a few interns. Help keep civic tech going in Malaysia.
Current funds raised: RM200
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RM5B 1MDB settlement is more than Ministry of Health 2016 budget for public health services
#opendata
@openspending
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As at 11pm today, is found to be blocked on:
- Maxis
- TM
- UMobile
See:
KENYATAAN MEDIA TV PERTIWI BERHUBUNG LAMAN WEB DISEKAT
17 Ogos 2023 adalah salah satu detik hitam dalam sejarah pentadbiran kerajaan madani apabila laungan kebebasan media dan kebebasan bersuara hanya diguna pakai dalam situasi yang berpihak kepada pihak kerajaan.
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Attendees of
#CivicTechFest
&
#TICTeC
@Taipei
Asia:94
Europe:28
North America:24
Latin America:6
Africa:8
Taiwan:109
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@Medium
@SKMM_MCMC
Hundreds of articles on science and technology such as AI, Data Science, Mathematics and Software Engineering on
@Medium
continue to be blocked by the Malaysian government
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Paid internship opportunity (RM2K/month) to work on and support our
@plone
websites and services
#python
#civictech
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In 2015
@SelangorGov
Exco lead by MB
@AzminAli
rejected our FOI request for expense claims by State Exco. Rejected on the basis that FOI is only for development projects and not of a personal nature.
#MyRightToKnow
how public funds are spent by elected representatives
#IDUAI
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We are against proposed Fake News Legislation because it restricts all alternative views, other than the government. Furthermore government statements cannot be verified if official info sources and data are secret or not published
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We're hiring! We're looking for a Knowledge Management and Community Officer to help us capture, organize and make our work and partners more accessible. Details here
#jobs
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You want your government to serve the people better, to respond faster, to eliminate waste and corruption. But it isn't easy. Learn how we can work together with
#OpenGov
. Join us for our introductory webinar tomorrow 2pm Tue 12th May
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Malaysian government information of public interest such as secret government direct-negotiated contracts & concessions are suppressed & protected by Official Secrets Act. Parliamentary questions by
#WakilRakyat
is a mechanism to make it publicly available
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On
#WorldPressFreedomDay
we share some of our efforts and resources to support journalism and media capacity building
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Join us and
@dewanmudamsia
this evening as we go over how data helps with better policy making, but also on how to be wary of how bias and gaps can also lead to harmful and discriminatory ones
The right to information and accessibility to data is extremely crucial in policymaking. Sign up for our workshop on Usage of Data in Policymaking to hear from Khairil Yusof, co-founder of the Sinar Project!
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Preliminary observations are that children are the most curious about using computers and IT equipment.
@Raspberry_Pi
400 running Raspberry Pi OS and refurbished PC on Ubuntu Linux were good enough to access Internet services. Read our social audit report
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Looking for archives of past Malaysian budgets?
#govdocs
project provides budget documents we're able to find from different sources since 1960 searchable and available for download as a free public service
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Apakah kekerapan kes buli gangguan seksual di sekolah? YB
@n_izzah
sudah tanya di Parliment, ini statistiknya.
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We need your help to monitor and test for network censorship for
#Lawan
protests with
@OpenObservatory
app
Details on how to run tests for censorship of messaging apps, civil society, news and political sites
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We are running
@OpenObservatory
network measurements for 1570 local and international News Media related sites and urls to detect Malaysian online media censorship.
@asiasentinel
,
@sarawak_report
and
@tm_insider
(defunct) are sites detected as officially blocked
#censorship
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Sources from Cambodia monitors running initial
@OpenObservatory
tests are detecting online censorship of several news sites this election weekend.
If you are in Cambodia, you help test and collect data for Internet censorship
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MP for Bagan Datuk, Zahid Hamidi is latest
#WakilRakyat
to be blacklisted for hate speech.
Learn more about our blacklist criteria to hold our elected representatives accountable to higher standards of integrity
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Democracy is more than just voting once every 5 years. Join our community meetup this Saturday morning at
@PusatRakyatLB
to learn about civic tech and how to get involved to create enabling environment for participatory democracy for Malaysia
#civictech
transparency work to have enough open data and tools, to make government transparent to enable an environment of civic participation and make government and elected representatives accountable is a monumental task
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@SelangorGov
@AzminAli
Not enough parks? No space for cycling lanes or pedestrian walkways? Our successful FOI request in 2015 to MBPJ revealed that private & public parking lots took up over 64 football fields of space in Petaling Jaya alone
#MYRightToKnow
#IDUAI
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Initial
#GE14
candidate website is up. We're now filling in as much info as we can on all 222 Parliament seats and 504 state seats (minus Sarawak)
Site design & performance improvements until May 9th
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Scanned Budgets submitted to Malaysian Parliament since 1959 are available online at govdocs.sinarproject thanks to Research Fund from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and
@inforefsa
#OpenParl
#govdocs
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Help keep our humble office open and civic tech in Malaysia going.
Our 1st quarter funds appeal is now at RM1475/RM10,000 target.
Thank you also to kind monthly donors. Monthly hosting costs are now fully supported by you.
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Thank you to the kind donor for 4 used monitors. 2 of them will be used to set up community Internet access terminals running on
@Raspberry_Pi
3 B+ which we are currently testing
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We monitor website blocking against human rights and media freedom categories for Southeast Asia.
A quick overview is accessible at our online censorship dashboard
We will try to improve the UI to better reflect confirmed or likely blocked websites.
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Pusat Khidmat Wakil Rakyat or MP Service Centres are where, constituents can contact and meet personally with their elected Parliamentary representatives. This is our current data on known contact details and opening times for all MPs
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1st Quarter 2020 Funds Appeal.
Help keep Sinar Project civic tech & open government efforts going.
We're trying to raise RM10,000 to keep our office open & servers going until April when we hope to secure long term institutional funding.
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We've just switched to our new site. Old content is still being migrated over and rewritten. Links to reports/documents on old site should still work. If you have any issue, do let us know.
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Over 500 Replies to Written Questions have been uploaded to
#pardocs
Search over 1,200 individual written replies to Oral and Written Questions for the last Parliamentary session
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#civictech
transparency work to have enough open data and tools, to make government transparent to enable an environment of civic participation and make government and elected representatives accountable is a monumental task
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Malaysian government is now taking policy position of censoring LGBT communities. Help us test and collect data of censorship of LGBT sites in Malaysia by running tests using OONI
@OpenObservatory
app on your phone
Android:
iOS:
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@Grindr
Since 22 Dec 2023, access to
@asiasentinel
website has been blocked in Malaysia on:
- TM (AS4788 and AS38322)
- Digi (AS4818)
- Maxis (AS9534)
- Time (AS9300)
- Celcom (AS10030)
Source:
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"Should goverment be allowed to keep secrets?"
@thestar_rage
explains what is
#FOI
and why Freedom of Information Act is needed in Malaysia featuring some inputs from our work in making Malaysian government more open and transparent
#IDUAI
#FOI
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BREAKING: Malaysian Anti-Fake News Bill got royal approval this Monday and was just published on Attorney General website.
Date of enforcement not stated yet and PDF links broken at the moment.
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Prepping
@Raspberry_Pi
for our Southeast Asia research partners running
@OpenObservatory
tests for Internet Censorship thanks to support from
@ISIF_Asia
and
@OpenTechFund
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We're looking for a local Subang Jaya community partner, that is in need of community Internet access connectivity and devices during Covid19 lockdowns DM us here or more contact details on our website
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Our work on open data on politicians from
#GE14
is now being imported into our open data PEPs system tracking their posts but can be used for joined up data to show beneficial ownership & contracts to hold politicians accountable
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Parliament is more than just about no confidence votes. Malaysians are currently unable to get any official answers to hundreds of pending questions by their
#WakilRakyat
. Also suspended, submission of hundreds of reports from agencies, statutory and oversight bodies
#OpenParl
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Merdeka! The oldest government document on Malaysian Government Document Archives, the "1959 Federation of Malaya Budget" It would be 3 more years, before we became Malaysia with the inclusion of Sarawak and Sabah.
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#GE14
Candidates that are transparent about their bio, have clear manifesto and campaign materials will look better to voters
Candidate for
#P002
Kangar from PAS
@hashimjasinakil
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2018 Second half funds appeal. We're hoping to raise RM25,000 to keep our office open until the end of the year and add a few interns.
Help keep civic tech going in Malaysia.
Current funds raised as of 10 Aug: RM6,618
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An open and accountable Malaysian government for the 21st century requires access to open data and digital tools for the public
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Thank you
@mySociety
,
@OcfTaiwan
,
@g0vtw
& all participants & volunteers for awesome
#civictechfest
&
#TICTeC
this past week in Taipei!
Attendees of
#CivicTechFest
&
#TICTeC
@Taipei
Asia:94
Europe:28
North America:24
Latin America:6
Africa:8
Taiwan:109
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Job opening. We're looking for a candidate to join our team in managing networks of digital rights partners that monitor internet censorship and restrictions to the freedom of expression online. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
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In 2015, when open data needed to measure poverty was unavailable we looked to methods done by civil society in South Africa and ran our own social audit surveys to get data for urban poverty for communities living in PPR public housing
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Preliminary look at network interference data by
@OpenObservatory
showed that for critical period of
#GE14
election result updates, TMNet & Maxis blocked
@malaysiakini
via DNS hijacking
TMnet/Unifi:
Maxis:
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Interested in getting started in investigative journalism and missed out for the first workshop? We're holding a second one in June in partnership with
@Internews
and
@EUinMalaysia
Apply online here by June 2:
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Join us 9:30am this Sat 12 May, at
@PusatRakyatLB
for our first post
#GE14
Civic Tech Community meetup to learn about making government work for the people by the people in 21st century
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We are now ramping up efforts to improve available data and info on politicians in preparation for GE15, details on status and joining our efforts on our website
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We've reached our 1st quarter fund raising goal!
Thank you for your kind contributions and support in keeping civic tech open parliament and open government efforts going.
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Our contributing researcher
@0xkaywong
shares her code for interactive network visualisation of addresses from
@ICIJorg
Offshore Leaks database
@neo4j
#ddj
#DataViz
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Do Malaysians have a right to digital privacy?
"Other than Section 509 of the Penal Code which strictly deals with actions which insults the modesty of a person, there is no statutory law that guarantees a Malaysian citizen’s right to privacy."
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