Tag: data protection act malaysia

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Personal data still open to abuse

    By SHAHANAAZ HABIB shaz@thestar.com.my The Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) offers some semblance of information privacy but it will not address other important aspects like non-commercial use of data or territorial or bodily privacy. DATA protection law expert Prof Abu Bakar Munir waved a list that contained 600 names, identity card numbers, addresses, phone numbers…