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Major amendments to the PDPA were proposed and passed in 2020. [3] [4] Among other changes, a tenth data protection obligation was added, namely, the Data Breach Notification Obligation. [5] The PDPA also governs telemarketing in Singapore. It establishes the Do Not Call Registers, on which telephone numbers may be registered.
PDPA can refer to: People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan – a communist party; Personal Data Protection Act 2012 – a Singapore law governing the use and protection of personal data; Professional Dart Players Association – a trade association for darts players
In compliance with the PDPA, the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) as the enforcement body (similar to the PCPD). It governs the collection, use, disclosure and care of personal data in Singapore (Chesterman, 2012). [12] The main differences lie in their enforcement.
An Act to prevent the electronic communication in Singapore of false statements of fact, to suppress support for and counteract the effects of such communication, to safeguard against the use of online accounts for such communication and for information manipulation, to enable measures to be taken to enhance transparency of online political advertisements, and for related matters.
In 1980, the OECD issued recommendations for protection of personal data in the form of eight principles. These were non-binding and in 1995, the European Union (EU) enacted a more binding form of governance, i.e. legislation, to protect personal data privacy in the form of the Data Protection Directive. [8]
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Germany released a statute (§ 3 Sec. 4 Teledienstedatenschutzgesetz [Teleservices Data Protection Act]) back in July 1997. [32] The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) includes ‘data protection by design’ and ‘data protection by default’, [33] [34] [12] the second foundational
In November 2020, the Nature Society discovered that it had suffered a data breach. According to investigations carried out by the Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore (PDPC), the personal data of 5,131 individuals who had created user accounts on the society's website had their personal data affected, and potentially exfiltrated and made available on hacking forums.