Gobind: Malaysia to update data protection laws


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 04 Oct 2018

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is looking to update its data protection laws to prevent data breaches, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo (pic).

"The law has to be on par with European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, as data breaches nowadays not just occur locally, but stretch across globally," he said.

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