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A well-intentioned pursuit to honour the late Lee Kuan Yew — with an online petition calling for an annual public holiday in his name — took a malicious turn over some misunderstanding.
The Singaporean couple who started the online petition received death threats after rumours circulated that their whole initiative was a scam, The New Paper reports.
Last Sunday, businessman John Lim and his wife Tan Lay Geok had started two website — www.lkyday.com and www.1923-2015.org — to collect signatures to petition the Government to declare Mar 23 a public holiday, the date that Singapore's founding Prime Minister passed away.
The next day however, an accusatory e-mail rapidly circulated accusing the couple of using the petition as a pretence to collect personal information. Their petition required Singaporeans to give their e-mail addresses, NRIC and telephone numbers.
The anonymous e-mail accusing the couple of being scammers is hosted by an overseas website-hosting company — outside the jurisdiction of Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act.
It was yesterday morning that Tan received a death threat via e-mail, and the couple lodged a police report.
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Speaking to The Straits Times, Lim mentions that they have a privacy clause not to use the data collected for purposes other than the petition, and that the telephone numbers are require for random checks.
After allegations of the scam emerged, the online petition has been suspended by the website hosting company. Lim however is confident that he can collect 10,000 signatures once the petition is back online.
Photo: Website screengrab
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A well-intentioned pursuit to honour the late Lee Kuan Yew — with an online petition calling for an annual public holiday in his name — took a malicious turn over some misunderstanding.
The Singaporean couple who started the online petition received death threats after rumours circulated that their whole initiative was a scam, The New Paper reports.
Last Sunday, businessman John Lim and his wife Tan Lay Geok had started two website — www.lkyday.com and www.1923-2015.org — to collect signatures to petition the Government to declare Mar 23 a public holiday, the date that Singapore's founding Prime Minister passed away.
The next day however, an accusatory e-mail rapidly circulated accusing the couple of using the petition as a pretence to collect personal information. Their petition required Singaporeans to give their e-mail addresses, NRIC and telephone numbers.
The anonymous e-mail accusing the couple of being scammers is hosted by an overseas website-hosting company — outside the jurisdiction of Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act.
It was yesterday morning that Tan received a death threat via e-mail, and the couple lodged a police report.
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Latest Update.1) we noted that when there was a whatsapp msg that was sent to many, which was forwarded to us from our...
Posted by Petition For LKY Day on Tuesday, 31 March 2015
Speaking to The Straits Times, Lim mentions that they have a privacy clause not to use the data collected for purposes other than the petition, and that the telephone numbers are require for random checks.
After allegations of the scam emerged, the online petition has been suspended by the website hosting company. Lim however is confident that he can collect 10,000 signatures once the petition is back online.
Photo: Website screengrab