This article first appeared in Forum, The Edge Malaysia Weekly, on April 11, 2022 – April 17, 2022. – A + A In 2017, The Economist published a story titled "The World's Most Valuable Resource Is No Longer Oil, But Data". Today's tech titans in the US thrive because of their ability to collect — and put to commercial use — the data of hundreds of millions of people on the planet. Malaysian corporations, no doubt, harbour similar ambitions. This is where the MySejahtera saga comes into the picture. It began when the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) revealed that no contract was signed between the government and developer KPISoft Malaysia Sdn Bhd in early 2020 when the app was developed. It was later reported that KPISoft (renamed Entomo Malaysia Sdn Bhd) had in October 2020 licensed the MySejahtera software and intellectual property rights to another company known as MySJ Sdn Bhd until 2025 for RM338.6 million. The government is now in talks with MySJ to purchase the MySejahtera software, the terms and fees of which are unknown. These events triggered a nationwide debate on who ultimately owns the data of the millions of Malaysian citizens and businesses collected by MySejahtera… Read full this story
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