What's Needed For An Effective Data Commission?

Kenny Lam, Partner, RDS Law

02-Aug-24 08:30

What's Needed For An Effective Data Commission?

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The government recently announced plans to set-up a Data Commission as part of efforts to improve data protection and innovation in the country. What's needed for the commission to be effective in its role? We discuss this proposal and the amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act with Kenny Lam of RDS Law.

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Produced by: Tun Hizami Hashim

Presented by: Wong Shou Ning, Shazana Mokhtar, Philip See

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Categories: politics, technology, Law/Activism

Tags: Data governance, data surveillance, microsoft, google, pdpa,

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