KUALA LUMPUR: The government must respond to public concerns with transparency rather than resort to punitive measures against those who raise legitimate questions, says Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon.
RECENT discussions surrounding the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission's (MCMC) Mobile Phone Data Programme have stirred public debate, raising questions over privacy, cybersecurity and the government's role in data stewardship.
AHMEDABAD, (India): Indian investigators have successfully retrieved data from the black boxes of a Boeing plane, after it crashed in one of the deadliest air disasters in decades, the government said Thursday (June 26).
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia scored two major achievements on the global stage in the areas of open data and press freedom, says Nga Kor Ming.
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has achieved two significant milestones on the global stage in open data and press freedom, says Nga Kor Ming.
PUTRAJAYA: The OpenDOSM NextGen application, a platform offering data catalogues and visualisations to help users analyse various datasets, has propelled Malaysia onto the global stage in the Open Data Inventory (Odin) 2024/25 assessment.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Microsoft President Brad Smith on Thursday will urge U.S. lawmakers to streamline federal permitting for artificial intelligence energy needs and open more government data sets for AI training, according to written testimony seen by Reuters.
KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit opened higher against the US dollar on Thursday as the greenback depreciated due to weaker United States (US) economic data recorded, an analyst said.
HANOI: The Ministry of Public Security on Saturday (May 24) called for strict penalties to prevent the emergence of a black market for personal data, warning that treating such data like ordinary goods could open the door to widespread cybercrime.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Thursday (June 19, 2025)
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PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong is urging Universiti Malaya (UM) to disclose any information it has that disproves the MCA president's claims of inequality in the varsity's dual admissions process.
SINGAPORE: Asian stocks stumbled on Wednesday and the dollar languished near 3-1/2-year lows as investors pondered the prospect of U.S. interest rate cuts and the scramble for trade deals ahead of President Donald Trump's July 9 deadline for tariffs.
MILAN (Reuters) -A push by Italy's government for state-backed telecoms firms Open Fiber and FiberCop to accelerate work on a European Union-funded network plan has hit a snag as the companies are struggling to agree terms of a potential deal, three sources said.
US volunteers restore health and climate data deleted by Trump administration - for everyone to use.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Monday (June 09, 2025)
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Thursday (June 5, 2025)
KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit opened stronger against the US dollar on Friday, due to a weaker US Dollar Index (DXY) amid mixed economic data, said an analyst.
KUALA LUMPUR: Data breaches have surged in recent years, with 646 cases reported in 2023, jumping 1192% from just 50 in 2022.
GEORGE TOWN: Penang is highly receptive to the Federal Government's initiative to enact laws similar to the Data Sharing Act 2024, to create a larger ecosystem between federal, state and local agencies.