Protecting Our Privacy

Foong Cheng Leong, Malaysian Bar committee on Personal Data Protection

20-Mar-19 07:30

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Gobind Singh Deo, Minister of Communications and Multimedia will consider reviewing the 9 year old Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) at the “Impact of EU-GDPR in Malaysia and Non-EU Countries”conference.

The act was formulated back in 2010 and since, there has been a lot of development in the area of privacy and data protection.

We speak to Foong Cheng Leong, who’s part of the Malaysian Bar committee on data protection.

Presented by: Lyn Mak, Sharidz Abdullah and Julian Ng

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