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SINGAPORE: WhatsApp’s clarifications about updates to its terms of service have gone some way to allay initial concerns over privacy, said users of the messaging app in Singapore who intend to continue using it.
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THE ABILITY of companies to keep data secure could emerge as a competitive advantage during the migration to online business processes, now that businesses can devote more time to privacy issues after exiting from survival mode during the early days of the lockdown, according to Singapore technology company Straits Interactive Pte. Ltd.
“Business leaders or the top of the organization should have undergone a paradigm shift and look at data privacy and data protection as a business enabler and a competitive advantage moving forward, especially in the turbo-accelerated digital transformation that is happening now,” Straits Interactive Country Manager Edwin A. Concepcion said in an online interview last month.
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