Critical Thinking Assignment - Coursework Example

2. Consumers’ data will become safer as the bill will preempt organizations from sharing personal information with third parties, without their consent. Thus, firms will be forced to use discretion while exchanging personal data. Besides, it will also help ensure that the consumers are “informed of the purpose” for which such data are being collected or used. It will also save the consumers from the hassle of having to deal with unsolicited marketing calls (Ramesh, 2012). (71 words) 3. Organizations like telemarketing companies will have to exercise extreme caution when contacting prospective customers.

The bill will restrict the availability of personal data as organizations that currently share information will be hesitant to do so in the future. It will also considerably decrease our volume of sales as we will not be able to contact as many customers as we want, with our sales pitches. With the Do Not Call Registry, many people will “opt out of marketing calls and SMS-es by signing up with the Registry” there by preventing us access to customers (Ramesh, 2012). Thus, we will have to evolve other ways to conform to the regulation.

(108 words) 4. The article titled, “Bill Introduced to Protect Personal Data,” written by S Ramesh, deals with the introduction of a new bill by Singapore government “after several rounds of public consultation” (Ramesh, 2012). The bill, which proposes penalties including fines for the misuse of personal data, is expected to bring dramatic changes to the concept of personal data protection. It will restrict organizations from indiscriminately obtaining, storing and exchanging personal data of individuals without their informed consent.

There will be a separate Personal Data Protection Commission for enforcing this law. The “key concept of the legislation” will be to introduce a “Do Not Call Registry” where people can sign up to stop any marketing calls or text messages. This will be a great step towards