#603 - Government Apologises for NRIC Debacle & Apparently Gain City Is Influential?

You’ve been waiting for this one. Just when we thought 2024 would close out quietly, a national regulator makes a rare, alarming blunder, then the government rolls out two ministers and a chief executive for a press conference and public apology. After all this fuss though, we’re still no clearer what the deal is with our National Registration Identity Card numbers. Should they be confidential, or not? How vulnerable are we, when they are revealed? And how did such a misunderstanding even arise? Separately, we look at a bizarre Straits Times headline about consumer electronics chain Gain City.

(00:00) Folklory
(01:16) Intro
(08:08) Government Apologises for NRIC Debacle
(48:08) Apparently Gain City Is Influential?
(53:22) One Shiok Comment
(55:23) One Shiok Thing

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Government Apologises for NRIC Debacle

• S'poreans' NRIC numbers publicly listed on new ACRA website, no login or payment required
• [2019] Illegal for non-public sector organisations to copy or hold your NRIC from Sept. 1, 2019
• Govt apologises for Acra lapse, will accelerate efforts to educate public on proper NRIC use
• Commentary: NRIC debacle boils down to the legal difference between identification and authentication
• PDPC guidelines to be updated to 'align with new policy intent', after government said it plans to stop masking NRIC numbers

Apparently Gain City Is Influential?

• Gain City named most influential company in Asia, absorbing GST for some items till Dec 29

One Shiok Comment

• Reddit comments on YLB #602

One Shiok Thing

• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
• Why I disappeared - Matt D’Avella

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