Monthly Archives: November 2023

Data Protection Liability in the Employment Context

Data Protection

This blog post highlights my article ‘Employer Liability and the Employee Exemption’ published in the PDP Digest 2022 relating to the allocation of data protection liability in the employment context. In that article, I discuss how the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (‘PDPA’) allocates liability between an employer and an employee, when the employee does something that constitutes a breach of a data protection obligation under the PDPA (for example, where the employee discloses the personal data of an individual without having obtained prior consent from that individual, in breach of the Consent Obligation under section 13 of the PDPA).

Vaccination and Governing through Contagion

Law & Society

In a recent article ‘Smallpox Vaccination and the Limits of Governing through Contagion in the Straits Settlements, 1868-1926’ published in Law & Policy, my co-author Jack Jin Gary Lee and I examine the social regulation of contagious diseases and its impact through the case of smallpox vaccination, the first modern, systematic, state-driven attempt to build population immunity.

(Let’s) Playing by the Rules: A Choice of Law Rule for Copyright Infringement Disputes Involving Let’s Plays

Intellectual Property

Where material from video games is used in ‘Let’s Plays’ (livestreamed or pre-recorded playthroughs of video games) without authorisation from those holding copyright in it (referred to herein as ‘developers’), the court presiding over the infringement claim is faced with complex questions relating to the conflict of laws. In my article ‘(Let’s) Playing by the Rules: A Choice of Law Rule for Communication of Copyright Material from Video Games to the Public, through Let’s Plays’ published in the Computer Law & Security Review, I flesh out the difficulties a court presiding over such claims may encounter when tackling that issue. I also propose a choice of law rule it can use to defuse those difficulties.