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It enforces fines of up to $1m for non-compliance with data protection rules. Singapore, Australia, and Hong Kong are the top markets that incur the harshest penalties for data breaches as a ...
The PDPA establishes a general data protection regime, originally comprising nine data protection obligations which are imposed on organisations: the Consent Obligation, the Purpose Limitation Obligation, the Notification Obligation, the Access and Correction Obligation, the Accuracy Obligation, the Protection Obligation, the Retention Limitation Obligation, the Transfer Limitation Obligation ...
Freedom of information laws allow access by the general public to data held by national governments and, where applicable, by state and local governments. The emergence of freedom of information legislation was a response to increasing dissatisfaction with the secrecy surrounding government policy development and decision making. [1]
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.
Singapore instructed Facebook <FB.O> on Friday to publish a correction on a user's social media post under a new "fake news" law, raising fresh questions about how the company will adhere to ...
This regulation also stimulated the tightening of data privacy laws elsewhere. [112] [113] As of 2022, the only United States federal law requiring notification for data breaches is limited to medical data regulated under HIPAA, but all 50 states (since Alabama passed a law in 2018) have their own general data breach notification laws. [113]
Singapore instructed Facebook on Friday to publish a correction notice on a user's social media post under a new "fake news" law.
The European Directive on Data Protection that went into effect in October 1998, includes, for example, the requirement to create government data protection agencies, registration of databases with those agencies, and in some instances prior approval before personal data processing may begin. In order to bridge these different privacy ...