A district judge in Singapore ruled that Martin Piper should have expected his identity to be disclosed during the Singapore Kindness Movement's (SKM) investigation into his complaint against Carol Loi Pui Wan. Piper sued SKM for allegedly breaching the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) by revealing his name and email address to Loi. The judge, however, found that Piper had consented to the disclosure by providing his personal information to SKM for the purpose of the investigation.
A district judge found that Mr Martin Piper should have expected his identity to be disclosed in the course of the Singapore Kindness Movement 's investigation into his complaint.
His claim related to an Aug 27, 2022, email he sent to SKM complaining about Ms Loi and her purported involvement in an “SG Families Watchgroup” Telegram group. Mr Piper’s email complaint was about an “SG Families Watchgroup” Telegram group that he said was “promoting discriminatory and false material that is designed to insult and harass transgender people”.
During the trial, it emerged that SKM had also revealed Mr Piper’s data to Ms Loi three other times – twice when its then general secretary, Dr William Wan, told her the identity of the person who had complained about her, and once when Mr Karun blind copied her in a reply to Mr Piper. The judge found that Mr Piper, represented by lawyers Fong Wei Li and Tiffanie Lim of Forward Legal, ran into a fundamental problem trying to characterise his claim as a “whistleblowing” case.
But neither Mr Piper nor Ms Loi were employed by SKM, and the complaint did not concern SKM's management or staff. “This is an insurmountable hurdle to the claimant’s attempt to characterise his claim as a ‘whistleblowing’ case,” the judge found.
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