KUALA LUMPUR, April 10 — Malaysia is working towards setting up a national cybersecurity commission and amend laws on protection of personal data, to counter scammers,...
KUALA LUMPUR, April 10 — Malaysia is working towards setting up a national cybersecurity commission and amend laws on protection of personal data, to counter scammers, Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil said today.
“Under the ministry, we are looking at several key and very important legislative amendments, including, we are working to amend the Personal Data Protection Act to make it more robust. “Secondly, we are having quite deep discussions and quite advanced discussions about merging NACSA and CyberSecurity Malaysia in order for us to move towards forming a National Cybersecurity Commission. We have some ways away, because we would have to bring a piece of legislation to Parliament.
He said these were among a few matters under his ministry’s jurisdiction that have to be looked at, to ensure Malaysians’ data are protected and cannot be stolen and misused by scammers.
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