Flipping through Facebook's privacy flap

The furore over Facebook's change (and reverting) of its user terms illustrates a few points about Internet companies.

(a) In order to be nimble, they will reserve the right to change their terms as easily as possible. There is no way an Internet company can wait for everyone to agree to every change.

(b) Their lawyers will draft terms of use as wide as possible in order to cater for as wide an audience as possible, and for as many scenarios as possible.

(c) Consumer-driven businesses will, at the end of..... Read more »

Tags: Intellectual Property, Car, Internet, user data, Internet company, Facebook, lawyer, Privacy, server

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Market competition and Chinese New Year

I wanted to write this only after the Chinese New Year season had passed. As far back as I can remember, during the run-up to the Chinese New Year, many businesses in Singapore would raise their prices. It would be common for barbers to charge a few dollars more while shops selling Chinese New Years goodies such as barbequed pork slices, would increase their prices every few days, peaking on the eve of Chinese New Year. This year, even food outlets started charging a premium during the Chinese New Year.

In the past, this practice came about because certain acts..... Read more »

Tags: Business, Price Increase, Agreement, Singapore, food, small business, worker, Chinese New Year

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Bryan Tan

Called to the Singapore and English Bars, Bryan Tan has practised in two of Singapore’s largest law firms and an international law firm. Bryan led many industry firsts including the first mass e-mail defamation case in the world, Singapore’s first publicised telecoms competition dispute, a pan-Asian co-branded travel portal, the first privately-funded cable landing project in Singapore and the world's first registrar-level domain name dispute. His areas of practice include information technology, telecommunications, biotechnology and bioinformatics, Chinese intellectual property, entertainment law and corporate work. He is also an author of Halsbury's Laws of Malaysia: E-Commerce. He also co-wrote the Singapore chapter of 'Digital Evidence' with Prof. Daniel Seng and is writing Halsbury's Laws of Singapore: E-Commerce.