Cops quiz Pahang MCA Youth chief over video on mobile data sharing

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Cops quiz Pahang MCA Youth chief over video on mobile data sharing


Wong Siew Mun spends two hours at Bukit Aman over her remarks on an MCMC request involving user data

Pahang MCA Youth chief Wong Siew Mun speaking to reporters after being questioned at Bukit Aman today. (Facebook pic)

PETALING JAYA: Pahang MCA Youth chief Wong Siew Mun was questioned by police today over a video in which she raised concerns about a request from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to telcos to collect mobile phone data.

MCA president Wee Ka Siong said Wong informed him that she had given her statement to Bukit Aman police this afternoon.

“She contacted me at 2pm to inform me that she had just finished giving her statement at Bukit Aman,” he said in a Facebook post.


Wee said Wong was accompanied by her lawyer, Kamarudin Ahmad, and was questioned from 11.15am to 1.15pm.

“I was informed that she is being investigated under Section 505(b) of the Penal Code and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998. Her mobile phone was also confiscated,” he said.


The investigation centres on a video in which Wong referenced a South China Morning Post report and questioned the motive behind MCMC’s request to mobile network operators to submit user data.

MCMC has since clarified that the data collection initiative did not involve the access, processing or disclosure of any personally identifiable information.

Commissioner Derek John Fernandez said the mobile phone data would be used strictly to generate official statistics to support evidence-based policymaking in the information and communications technology sector and the tourism sector.