KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 — Continued breaches exposing Malaysians’ private information at government agencies meant the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) should be amended to...
KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 — Continued breaches exposing Malaysians’ private information at government agencies meant the Personal Data Protection Act should be amended to finally make these accountable, said legal experts
Before that, the auditor-general also flagged an incident in which the private data of over three million Malaysians had been exported from the government’s MySejahtera app, ostensibly by a “super admin” user. “Although the government is in the process of amending the act, the exact effect of the amended act will not be known for sure until the amendments are passed,” Liaw said when contacted.
The PDPA allows for fines of up to RM500,000 and custodial sentences of no more than three years’ imprisonment for various offences, ranging from the unauthorised collection of private information to the unlawful disclosure and transmission of the same. Fahmi said among amendments being considered were the requirement for companies or data users to notify the PDPD upon the discovery of data breaches and increased penalties for violators.
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