Personal Data Protection Act 2010
Assalamualaikum and good day from HAT,
As you may be aware, above act took effect since November 2013. All companies dealing in personal data including institutions that offer training (and handle students' personal data) are required to comply with the act and register with Ministry of Communication and Multimedia, Personal Data Protection Department.
The full act can be found below:
Please make yourself familiar with it. Moving forward it will becoming more risky to use other people info nowadays. You could be fine or jail should you being convicted with 'misuse' of personal data when you use it as the Data Users ...even to your own staff.
Example of "Personal Data" are:
- Name and address
- identification number
- passport number
- health information
- picture
- recording images in closed circuit television (CCTV)
- information in personal files
- Bank account details
- Credit card details
Data Users - means any person who processes the data and any person who has control over or authorizes the processing of any personal data in respect of commercial transactions.
Data Subject - means an individual who is the subject of personal data.
More info can be found from KKMM website:
No comments:
Post a Comment