SINGAPORE: A man who lodged a complaint against an affiliate of the Singapore Kindness Movement is suing the charity for exposing his personal details to her.
Mr Martin Piper's civil suit against the Singapore Kindness Movement, a non-government Institution of Public Character opened at the State Courts on Monday (Aug 5).
The 51-year-old, who is unemployed, is contending that the Singapore Kindness Movement breached its obligations under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA) by revealing his name and email address to Ms Carol Loi Pui Wan, a woman he had complained about.
Ms Loi is the co-founder of the SGFamilies ground-up movement, which is an affiliate of the Singapore Kindness Movement.
Ms Loi eventually filed a claim against Mr Piper under the Protection From Harassment Act 2014 (POHA) in September 2022.
However she dropped this claim, and a separate harassment claim by Mr Piper against Ms Loi was settled out of court last month, Mr Piper, a former Progress Singapore Party member, told CNA. Mr Piper left the opposition party in July last year.
Documents filed by Mr Piper's lawyers Fong Wei Li and Tiffanie Lim of Forward Legal stated that their client suffered "financial loss and emotional distress" in responding to Ms Loi's claim. Following his complaint, Mr Piper received death threats which referred to Ms Loi, according to his opening statement.
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