Cellphone shop owner in SG fined for using customer data without consent to register, sell SIM cards illegally


Neo used the data of at least 78 customers who had purchased prepaid M1 SIM cards from him to register additional prepaid SIM cards without their knowledge, using data including their NRIC numbers, names and addresses. — Reuters

SINGAPORE: A cellphone store owner has been fined S$21,000 (RM64,715) by the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) after he used customers’ details without consent to register prepaid SIM cards, which he then sold to others.

Neo Yong Xiang will also be charged with two counts of cheating on Friday (March 11) for alleged misuse of computer systems containing customers’ personal data, said PDPC and the police in a joint media release on Thursday.

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