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The New Regulation on Processing of Personal Data and Protection
of Privacy in the Electronic Communication Sector (the
Regulation ) published in the Official
Gazette on December 4, 2020 will come into force as of June 4,
2021.
The Regulation sets forth procedures and principles applicable
to the operators in in the electronic communication sector with
respect to data (
including personal data and data
related to legal person subscriptions) which they
collect within the scope of providing their electronic
communication services. The Regulation introduces specific
provisions applicable to operators in addition to the Personal Data
Singapore data privacy law updates 2020
In June 2020, the Personal Data Protection Regulations 2014 (“
Regulations”) were revised to recognise the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (“
APEC”) Cross Border Privacy Rules (“
CBPR”) System and, for data processors, the Privacy Recognition for Processors (“
PRP”) System certifications as an additional data transfer mechanism under the PDPA for transferring personal data outside Singapore.
Section 26 of the PDPA restricts an organisation from transferring personal data outside Singapore (“
Transfer Limitation Obligation”), unless at least one of the prescribed safeguards has been put in place to ensure that the data recipient will provide a standard of protection to the transferred personal data that is comparable to the protection under the PDPA. The Regulations further specify the steps that an organisation may take to ensure that the overseas recipient of personal data is bound by legally enforceable obligation
India s personal data privacy law triggers surveillance fears
The Indian government wants global tech giants like Facebook and Google to store sensitive data of users locally, but critics say this may make users more vulnerable to official surveillance.
Laws in India regarding data privacy were ambiguous for a long time, but in 2017 the country s Supreme Court ruled that the Indian constitution guaranteed a fundamental right to privacy for every citizen.
Recently, however, public debate over the government gathering personal information for India s biometric identification system, Aadhaar, and discussions around data privacy in the EU prompted the Indian government to introduce a Personal Data Protection (PDP) legislation.
By Anton Alexeyev,Oksana Voynarovska,
Associate - Kazakhstan
AEQUITAS Law Firm,
Maria Ostashenko and Dmitry Simbirtsev, Firm:Alrud
In this guide, Ius Laboris lawyers from Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine provide a detailed survey of data protection law and how it is enforced in their jurisdictions.
Kazakhstan
What information is defined as personal data?
Personal data means: information relating to the data subject identified, or to be identified, on the basis of such information, recorded on an electronic, paper and/or any other tangible medium. Personal data includes full name, address of residence, information on citizenship, date of birth, information on education, marital status, biometric data, individual identification number, etc. The source, or the subject, of personal data may be an individual only.
L-R: Prateek Hegde, COO, APAC & CEO, Generation Singapore; Andrea Della Mattea, President, Microsoft APAC; S Iswaran, Minister for Communications and Information & Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations; Kevin Wo, Managing Director, Microsoft Singapore; Lew Chuen Hong, Chief Executive, IMDA; and Peter Lam, Principal & CEO, Temasek Polytechnic at the launch of #GetReadySG during Microsoft’s 30th anniversary celebrations
#GetReadySG
is the first public-private sector collaboration with a leading technology company and a global non-profit organisation to bridge holistic training in both hard and soft skills with employment
The collaboration will provide tech jobseekers greater diversity of career choices with different hirers and ensure that they are well-equipped for employment