TECHNOLOGY: Contact-tracing in a world of data leaks


IT may be hard to believe, but Malaysia was once at the forefront of enacting legislation to face an increasingly digital world.

We were among the first countries in the world to criminalise hacking, which had previously been seen as a cool rite of passage for coders or part of a countercultural revolution, despite the havoc that had been wrecked across government and telco networks across the world.

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