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VIETNAM, MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA: what you need to know about the new SE Asia data protection laws

By Carolyn Bigg, Venus Cheung & Qiuyang Zhao on October 31, 2024

Posted in Compliance programs and policies, New laws, Privacy Law

It’s the turn of South-East Asian countries to update their data protection laws. Here is our summary of the proposed new data protection laws in Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. Organisations are advised to update their data protection compliance programmes as soon as possible to reflect these developments.

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Vietnam issued its first draft of a…

VIETNAM: First Personal Data Protection Decree passed – What you need to know

By olaideogungbesan on May 24, 2023

Posted in Data transfers, General Data Protection Regulation

Authors: Carolyn Bigg, Amanda Ge, Venus Cheung, and Gwyneth To.

Vietnam’s long-awaited, first-ever Personal Data Protection Decree (“PDPD”) has finally been passed and is scheduled to take effect from 1 July 2023 (save limited grace period exceptions).

The PDPD is the first comprehensive data protection regulation consolidating Vietnam’s existing data…

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