Singapore is planning key updates to its data privacy law,
bringing the country more closely in line with the EU, Australia,
and other regions that have strictly regulated the use and sharing
of online personal information. Multinationals doing business with
the island nation should review their procedures for collecting and
processing personal data to ensure they are in compliance before
the changes become law.
The updates come in the form of amendments to Singapore's
Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), which was passed in 2012 and
became effective in 2014. After the EU's landmark General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR) was passed in 2016, Singapore's
Ministry of Communications and Information and Personal Data
Protection Commission (PDPC) began holding public consultations to
gain feedback about proposed modifications to its PDPA and the
country's Spam Control Act (SCA), which regulates phone calls
and texting.
