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Sinkie Doctor gets flak for imposter's online posts
SINGAPORE - A doctor specialising in sports medicine at Changi General Hospital (CGH) became the subject of online criticism after a netizen allegedly impersonated her and posted offensive comments on online social-media networks.
The comments by Dr Lim Baoying's impersonator drew so much ire online that the doctor's employer stepped in to clear the air on Tuesday.
The impersonator made inflammatory comments targeted at the Workers' Party on Facebook, in response to photos of a fallen tree posted on several online forums.
The imposter's comments also sparked a thread on Hardware- Zone's online forum, which led many netizens to criticise Dr Lim, calling her actions "unbecoming" of a medical practitioner.
Some netizens also uncovered information relating to Dr Lim, such as her place of work and personal details, and posted photos of her online.
Expressing anger at her imposter, Dr Lim posted on her Facebook page: "Whoever you are, please stop trying to pretend to be me and post those horrible comments everywhere!"
Her post, which has since been taken down, garnered over 30 comments on Tuesday.
On the same day, CGH issued a statement online to clarify the matter.
Mr Lim Ee Guan, CGH's director of corporate affairs, wrote in the statement that the imposter, going by the name of "Lim Baoying", who had been making "unsavoury remarks on Facebook... is not our resident physician, Dr Lim Baoying".
"The perpetrator is using a fake Facebook account, replicating some details so as to link it to Dr Lim," explained Mr Lim.
He also said that the events have caused Dr Lim and her family "undue distress".
Impersonation on Facebook violates the social network's terms and conditions, said Mr Aaron Ng, an instructor at the Department of Communications & New Media at the National University of Singapore.
Facebook states that one must provide truthful and accurate information when registering for an account.
It is therefore "quite easy" for Facebook to take down the fake account once evidence can be provided to that end, he said.
Even so, the act of impersonation itself is not a crime, said lawyer Choo Zheng Xi of Peter Low LLC.
But a person who assumes another's identity in a manner that is damaging to the latter's reputation, or brings the latter's name into disrepute, could be liable for defamation, he said.
For civil defamation, when a personal claim is taken up against an individual, the guilty party has to pay the defamed person monetary compensation.
However, Mr Choo said that even if someone in Dr Lim's situation could take legal action, the question of who to take it up against remains, as the identity of the imposter is unknown.
According to the Norton Cybercrime Report 2012, one in five adults here who goes online was a victim of cybercrime on social networks, or on mobile platforms.
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SINGAPORE - A doctor specialising in sports medicine at Changi General Hospital (CGH) became the subject of online criticism after a netizen allegedly impersonated her and posted offensive comments on online social-media networks.
The comments by Dr Lim Baoying's impersonator drew so much ire online that the doctor's employer stepped in to clear the air on Tuesday.
The impersonator made inflammatory comments targeted at the Workers' Party on Facebook, in response to photos of a fallen tree posted on several online forums.
The imposter's comments also sparked a thread on Hardware- Zone's online forum, which led many netizens to criticise Dr Lim, calling her actions "unbecoming" of a medical practitioner.
Some netizens also uncovered information relating to Dr Lim, such as her place of work and personal details, and posted photos of her online.
Expressing anger at her imposter, Dr Lim posted on her Facebook page: "Whoever you are, please stop trying to pretend to be me and post those horrible comments everywhere!"
Her post, which has since been taken down, garnered over 30 comments on Tuesday.
On the same day, CGH issued a statement online to clarify the matter.
Mr Lim Ee Guan, CGH's director of corporate affairs, wrote in the statement that the imposter, going by the name of "Lim Baoying", who had been making "unsavoury remarks on Facebook... is not our resident physician, Dr Lim Baoying".
"The perpetrator is using a fake Facebook account, replicating some details so as to link it to Dr Lim," explained Mr Lim.
He also said that the events have caused Dr Lim and her family "undue distress".
Impersonation on Facebook violates the social network's terms and conditions, said Mr Aaron Ng, an instructor at the Department of Communications & New Media at the National University of Singapore.
Facebook states that one must provide truthful and accurate information when registering for an account.
It is therefore "quite easy" for Facebook to take down the fake account once evidence can be provided to that end, he said.
Even so, the act of impersonation itself is not a crime, said lawyer Choo Zheng Xi of Peter Low LLC.
But a person who assumes another's identity in a manner that is damaging to the latter's reputation, or brings the latter's name into disrepute, could be liable for defamation, he said.
For civil defamation, when a personal claim is taken up against an individual, the guilty party has to pay the defamed person monetary compensation.
However, Mr Choo said that even if someone in Dr Lim's situation could take legal action, the question of who to take it up against remains, as the identity of the imposter is unknown.
According to the Norton Cybercrime Report 2012, one in five adults here who goes online was a victim of cybercrime on social networks, or on mobile platforms.
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