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Big Brother Coming to Malaysia?

Government to create national biometric ID registry

Oct 01, 2021
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By: Murray Hunter

Malaysia says it will implement an all-encompassing nationwide biometric registry system that to critics calls up images of Big Brother, the fictional leader of the totalitarian state of Oceania in George Orwell’s famed dystopian novel 1984.

The proposal was revealed in the country’s just-published 12th Malaysia plan, a 532-page five-yea…

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