Foong Cheng Leong

Tag: Malaysia Personal Data Protection Act 2010

  • SayaKenaHack.com and Privacy

    Recently, tech blogger Keith Rozario created the website SayaKenaHack.com, a platform to allow people to check if they were affected by the data leakage of 46.2 million mobile phone subscribers. The website allowed users to key in their identity card number and the website will inform the users whether they are affected by the leakage.…

  • Feedback to the proposed Personal Data Protection (Transfer Of Personal Data To Places Outside Malaysia) Order 2017

    The Malaysian Personal Data Protection Commissioner (Commissioner) has published the Public Consultation Paper (PCP) No. 1/2017 (click to download) entitled Personal Data Protection (Transfer Of Personal Data To Places Outside Malaysia) Order 2017 (“Order”). The public consultation is intended to solicit feedback from data users and/or relevant parties pertaining to the whitelist places for transfer…

  • Personal Data Protection Commissioner publishes the Personal Data Protection Standard 2015

    On 23 December 2015, the Personal Data Protection Commissioner (“Commissioner”) published the Personal Data Protection Standard 2015 after consulting members of the public. The Standard sets out the minimum standards to process personal data and it is applicable to anyone who processes or has control or authorises the processing of any personal data relating to…

  • Survey Relating to Compounding Regulations

    The Malaysia Personal Data Protection Commissioner Office wishes to enforce compounding regulations pursuant to the Personal Data Protection Act 2010. They have now issued a survey for the members of the public and organisations. Any response to the survey should be submitted before 14 November 2014. For more details, go to www.pdp.gov.my Download: Survey Form…

  • Retirement of Haji Abu Hassan Ismail

    With the retirement of Haji Abu Hassan Ismail as the Director General of the Personal Data Protection Department, Encik Mazmalek bin Mohamad has been appointed as the new Director General of the Personal Data Protection Department effective from 1st October 2014.

  • Leveraging Big Data

    I was quoted in the May 2014 issue of Personal Money. Leveraging Big Data Personal Finance Written by Emily Chow and Sarah Voon of The Edge Malaysia Friday, 16 May 2014 00:00 UPLOADING photos on Facebook; making an ATM transaction; operating a machine in a factory; making a call from a handphone. On the surface,…

  • Data Protection Conference: Beyond Opt In and Opt Out

    I have been invited to be one of the panelists for the panel session, Jurisdictions and marketplace experience: United States of America, EU, Asia-Pacific, ASEAN and Middle East. Click on the images below for larger view.

  • Malaysia SME and Focus Malaysia

    I am featured in the recent issues of Malaysia SME and Focus Malaysia (Issue #70). Both business weekly covered my views on the Personal Data Protection Act 2010.

  • Personal Data Protection Act 2010: Our details are worth protecting

    I was quoted by Rakyat Post in their article “Personal Data Protection Act 2010: Our details are worth protecting. Personal Data Protection Act 2010: Our details are worth protecting The Personal Data Protection Act 2010 intends to protect personal data and stop it from being distributed. THE Personal Data Protection Act 2010 is necessary because…

  • Guide to complete the Form 15 (Registration of Data User) pursuant to the Personal Data Protection Act 2010

    Commencing from January 2016, all data user registrations are done via online at http://daftar.pdp.gov.my This is a guide I wrote for lawyers on how to complete the Data User Registration Form (Form 15) Guide to complete the Form 15 (Registration of Data User) pursuant to the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 As stated by the…