Changes to the Protection Act Have an Impact on the Healthcare Sector

Before the modifications, there was no requirement under the PDPA for organisations to notify the PDPC and/or impacted persons when a data breach occurred, although the Personal Data Protection Commission encouraged organisations to do so voluntarily.

If the compromised personal data in...

Thailand will adopt Personal Data Protection by June

Thailand's Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA) has stated that the Personal Data Protection Act will be implemented (PDPA). It was charged with creating a digital start-up and service provider account registration system. To increase the services available to digital firms in Thailand, di...

India will become ‘Orwellian State’ with personal data protection bill

On Wednesday, personal data protection bill was placed in the parliament. The committee for the same was led by Justice BN Srikrishna. The bill exempts many of the centre’s agencies from almost all the provisions, which, according to Srikrishna is “dangerous” and capable of turn...

Personal Data Protection Bill in India – a way to curb “fake news”

Spreading fake news and unnecessarily trolling people will become a bit easier to curb with the government’s proposed new privacy bill. All social media platforms will have to provide an identity-verification option. You can call it a precedent-setting effort for handling fake data and news...