German insurer Allianz SE has announced the withdrawal of its S$2.2 billion (US$1.6 billion) pre-conditional voluntary cash ...

Ministers Tan See Leng and K Shanmugam announced they will take legal action following a Bloomberg article published on 12 ...

Former Temasek CEO Ho Ching has defended the use of NRICs as “digital names,” arguing they should not be treated as secret ...

Prof Eugene Tan’s claim that the government’s stance on NRIC masking aligns with the PDPA misrepresents its framework. Past ...

The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) reported a 31.6% surge in arrests for harbouring and hiring immigration ...

The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) clarified that NRIC numbers should not be used as passwords or for authentication, following public outcry over ACRA’s Bizfile platform. Despite SingPass ...

The Singapore government revealed that ACRA moved ahead with unmasking NRIC numbers on the Bizfile portal before plans for public education. Privacy concerns arose after full NRIC numbers appeared in ...

Ministry of Digital Development and Information claims NRICs are “just identifiers,” reversing the PDPC’s 2018 stance that recognised NRIC numbers as sensitive due to risks like fraud and harassment.

ACRA’s Bizfile platform exposed full NRICs, yet it is exempt from penalties under the PDPA, unlike private organisations such as the Singapore Taekwondo Federation, which was fined for NRIC breaches.

Veteran journalist Bertha Henson raised alarms on 12 December about the ease of accessing full NRIC numbers via ACRA’s new Bizfile system. By entering a name, even individuals with no business ties ...

The Personal Data Protection Commission advises against using NRIC numbers for authentication, labeling them identifiers, not secrets. This clashes with SingPass's default use of NRICs as login IDs, ...

Allianz has reportedly abandoned its S$2.2 billion plan to acquire 51% of Singapore’s Income Insurance Ltd following public ...