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                                <title><![CDATA[ Hacker claims massive data theft from ministries, government agencies ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The stash of data allegedly stolen from more than a dozen government bodies is being offered for RM85,000. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Netizens pan Rafizi after clip deriding those not registered in Padu ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Comments flood the economy minister's social media platforms on his handling of criticism over the government database. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Defending PADU as 'safe', Rafizi says database withstood over 2 million cyber attacks ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 03:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The economy minister responds to the Sarawak government's criticism of the new database hub he has been promoting. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ PADU: 'Big data' or 'big brother'? ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 01:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ As deadline nears for Malaysians to update their details on PADU, many still worried about giving their personal information. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Sarawak minister says Padu 'strips citizens naked' ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 08:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah also wonders if the data collection has hidden motives. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Poland investigates OpenAI over privacy concerns ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ OpenAI has already faced at least its second class action lawsuit in San Francisco federal court for allegedly breaking privacy laws. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ UK urges Meta not to roll out end-to-end encryption on Messenger and Instagram ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 02:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Social media platforms will face tougher requirements to protect children from accessing harmful content when the Online Safety Bill passed by parliament becomes law. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ UK defends plan to demand access to encrypted messages to protect children ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The dispute is part of a wider debate between large tech companies, which say they are protecting free speech, and governments which say they are defending citizens from harmful content online. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Australia court fines Facebook owner Meta US$14 million for undisclosed data collection ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 01:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The company advertised Onavo as a way for people to keep their information safe but collected their data and frequency using other smartphone apps, and websites they visited for its own purposes, reports say. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ UK to remove Chinese-made surveillance equipment from sensitive government sites ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 09:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ British lawmakers have called for a ban on the sale and use of security cameras made by Hikvision and Dahua, over privacy fears and concerns of the companies' products being linked to human rights abuses in China. ]]></description>
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