Salang: BN SMS greeting is 'love', not breach of privacy


Birthday messages sent by Selangor BN coordinator Mohd Zin Mohamed to Selangor residents have been not a crack of remoteness though a uncover of "love", pronounced Information, Communications as well as Culture Deputy Minister Joseph Salang Gandum.

NONEWinding up a committee stage debates upon a ministry's budget, Salang (right) pronounced which a SMSes which arrive upon a voters' birthdays was a "political initiative" to "please" a voters.

"I do not hold which this contravenes a Act... It is up to a Sepang MP (Mohd Zin) to greatfully his voters. You can do a same if we have your voters' telephone numbers.

"I have thousands of phone numbers in my mobile phone memory. If we was as diligent (as Mohd Zin) I, too, can wish my electorate happy birthday. That is a sophistication of modern technology. You can keep report in iPads or Galaxy Note 2, there have been lots of worldly applications now.

"It does not crack simple rights. It is to uncover love. This message, w! hich we consider is good (cantik) shows adore as well as it pleases someone to know which their MP knows when they were born," he said.

The emissary apportion was replying to Teo Nie Ching (DAP-Serdang) who asked if it was a crack of a Section 6 of a Personal Data Protection Act 2012 for SMS blasts to be sent about a National Day celebrations recently.

She had pointed out a birthday summary by Mohd Zin when a emissary apportion pronounced which a BN does not send out mass SMSes.

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Interjecting, Jeff Ooi (DAP-Jelutong) pronounced a ministry needs to be careful to safeguard which 'short codes' licences released to telecommunication companies have been not abused.

"The messages were not pointless though broadcasts. It is not good for us to apologise for blurb companies who crack their customers' privacy.

"The SMS (birthday SMS) has been referred to me, too, as well as we saw which it came from a 5 digit reduced code. A reduced code belongs to operators as well as operators lend this to Malaysian Communication as well as Multimedia Commission (MCMC) licensees," he said.
Short codes have been special telephone numbers which can be used to send SMSes as well as multimedia mobile messages (MMSes) from mobile or fixed telephones.

Replying upon a National Day SMS broadcast, Salang pronounced that, too, is not a crack of remoteness as it was promote to all as well as not to specific users.

He pronounced which a telecommunications companies had sent these messages as a "social service" as partial of corporate amicable shortcoming as well as to "show adore for a country".

"If any one sent me an SMS informing me of a date, time as well as venue of a National Day celebration, we would not find it a crack of my simple rights. we will laud it as we adore this country.

"I do not consider a personal interpretation was sole (by a telecommunications companies), this is a summary we embrace because we am a subscriber to their service," he said.

Meanwhile, a emissary apportion pronounced he will obtain report from a MCMC upon lewd MMSes received by Teo, about which she had lodged a report, as well as provide a written reply upon a matter.
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