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The question here is whether the definition in section 3 is broad enough to cover government agencies.

Electronic contracts have become an integral element in fostering smooth transactions in the contemporary landscape of business transactions.

Zamir Hamdy Hamdan explains the need to safeguard employees' personal data. It is unquestionably the case that a fair amount of most corporations' repositories of personal data include those of their employees.

Malaysia's first comprehensive personal data protection legislation has been passed by Parliament but is not in force.

Natalie and Rui Rong explain some challenges in implementing 5G in Malaysia.

Self-driving cars, robot doctors controlled remotely conducting surgeries and celebrity holograms will no longer be scenes from futuristic sci-fi movies.

Malaysia's Online Safety Act 2025 introduces a comprehensive platform accountability framework with strict response deadlines as short as one hour, detailed content-classification requirements, and significant penalties for non-compliance. How will technology companies operating in the Asia-Pacific region adapt their trust-and-safety operations to meet these new legal duties while managing the cumulative complexity of divergent regulatory regimes across Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, and China?

As a first step, establish an incident response team overseen by a party independent of the business unit where the breach occurred.

Recently, Sweden's H&M was fined 35 million euros by the Hamburg Data Protection Authority for internal data security breaches at its customer service centre in Nuremberg.

Malaysia's data protection landscape has recently undergone a profound transformation, with the phased implementation of the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2024 ("PDPA Amendment")...

In recent years, the world has seen unprecedented privacy breaches as the global population sees the gradual but unavoidable shift of information into cyberspace.

Section 12B of the Personal Data Protection Act 2010[1] [Act 709] ("PDPA"), which will come into effect on 1 June 2025 introduces a mandatory requirement for data controller...

The principle of extraterritoriality is the application of national laws on persons, properties or conduct outside of the jurisdiction.

As part of an ongoing review of the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (‘PDPA'), the Personal Data Protection Commissioner (‘Commissioner')...

In recent months, there have been a series of purported data leaks at the National Registration Department of Malaysia ("NRD") whereby the personal information of millions of Malaysians...

As of late, new laws and regulations have been created in order to address modern concerns. In Malaysia, the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 ("PDPA") is the core of such system.

In Malaysia, collection, processing, storage, transfer and retention of individuals' personal data are governed under the Personal Data Protection Act 2010.

Artificial Intelligence ("A.I.") is rapidly evolving and is becoming ubiquitous to daily lives.