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Response to The Straits Times' choice of a misleading headline "SAF to ease ban on camera phones in camps"
22 September 2011
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MINDEF clarifies ST headline "SAF to ease ban on camera phones in camps"
Following The Straits Times' choice of a misleading headline "SAF to ease ban on camera phones in camps" for an article published on 20 Sep 2011, MINDEF has received public queries seeking clarification on the matter. This arose as the headline implied that the SAF planned to ease the ban on camera phones while the article quoted MINDEF? statement on maintaining its current security policy.
MINDEF would like to clarify and state that there is no change to the current security policy on disallowing personal image-capturing devices in SAF camps. The ongoing trial is to explore ways to allow smartphones with cameras removed to be brought into MINDEF/SAF premises.
Colonel Desmond Tan
Director, Public Affairs
Ministry of Defence
MINDEF's reply was published as "Headline on camera phone policy is misleading: Mindef", The Straits Times, 22 Sep 11