Singapore courts hand down fines for first prosecutions under ‘do not call’ rules

A Singapore tuition agency and its director have become the first to be prosecuted and fined under the country’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), which came into force on 2 January 2014.

Star Zest Home Tuition, and its director, Law Han Wei, were each fined 39,000 Singapore dollars (SGD) ($31,000) by the State Courts on 27 August after pleading guilty to 13 of 27 charges of flouting ‘do not call’ (DNC) registry rules.

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