Category: Data Privacy
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BFM Podcast: Msia I Can Series: The Right To Your Privacy
This is my podcast from my live radio interview on
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Enforcement of the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (2)
In our earlier blog entry entitled, “Enforcement of the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010“, we mentioned that the Personal Data Protection Department stated that “it is best for us to wait for the Minister to make the announcement on the enforcement of the Act and notify in the Gazette”. We recently came across a…
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Enforcement of the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010
In our earlier blog entry, we mentioned that Bernama reported that the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA) will be enforced in June 2012 but this may not be correct in view of the Director General of Personal Data Protection Department’s (PDPD) statement. We sought clarification with the PDPD and the PDPD informed us that…
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Proposal to have privacy officer to implement data protection law
KUALA LUMPUR: New Zealand’s Assistant Privacy Commissioner Katrine Evans has suggested that Malaysia have privacy officers to implement the data protection law. She said a privacy officer is the person in an agency who can understand its business and, at the same time, help the agency get it right in handling personal information. “I don’t…
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Protecting your personal data
By DATUK SERI DR RAIS YATIM At long last, we now have a venue to bring up grouses about our personal data being given away without our knowledge – the Personal Data Protection Department, which was officially launched on Thursday. ISSUES related to Personal Data Protection have been dabbled with for a long time in…
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Seminar for awareness of personal data protection 2012
The Personal Data Protection Department of Malaysia (PDPD) (Jabatan Perlindungan Data Peribadi Malaysia) held the above event on 9 February 2012 at Royale Chulan Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. In this seminar, Tuan Haji Abu Hassan Ismail, the Director General of the PDPD announced that the enforcement date of the Personal Data Protection 2010 (PDPA) will be…
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Malaysian Personal Data Protection Department
KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 14, 2012): Information, Communication and Culture Deputy Minister Datuk Maglin D’Cruz has announced that the Personal Data Protection Department (Jabatan Perlindungan Data Peribadi Malaysia) has been created within the ministry under the Personal Data Protection Act 2010. – Bernama.
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Personal Data Protection Act to be introduced next year
By LOH FOON FONG foonfong@thestar.com.my KUALA LUMPUR: The long awaited Personal Data Protection Act 2010 will be enforced next year. Information, Communications and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said the Ministry was in the process of getting “the right personnel with the right expertise” to set up the Personal Data Protection Department. The…
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Protection for your personal data
This is an interesting article from Singapore’ Straits Times regarding the collection of personal data by building owners. Whether the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (“PDPA”) will apply to building owners in respect of such processing is a moot point but I take the view that the PDPA is not applicable as such collection…
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Penang passes Freedom of Information Bill
GEORGE TOWN: The Penang State Assembly passed the Freedom of Information Bill Friday. Twenty-four assemblymen voted for the bill, two were against while 14 representatives were absent. A recount of votes was conducted three times before the bill was finally approved by the Speaker Datuk Abdul Halim Hussain. The bill allows the public access to…