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Personal Data Protection Act 2012

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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
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The PDPA also governs telemarketing in Singapore. It establishes the Do Not Call Registers, on which telephone numbers may be registered. There are three Do Not Call Registers: (i) the No Fax Message Register; (ii) the No Text Message Register; and (iii) the No Voice Call Register. Generally, if a
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The PDPA establishes the Personal Data Protection Commission ("PDPC") as the regulatory authority governing data protection in Singapore. The PDPC enforces the PDPA and publishes advisory guidelines on the interpretation of the PDPA. To date, the PDPC has enforced the PDPA against a number of
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An Act to govern the collection, use and disclosure of personal data by organisations, and to establish the Do Not Call Register and to provide for its administration, and for matters connected therewith, and to make related and consequential amendments to various other Acts.
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telephone number is listed on a Do Not Call Register (e.g. the No Text Message Register), then it is not permitted to send a marketing message of the relevant kind to that telephone number.
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Major amendments to the PDPA were proposed and passed in 2020. Among other changes, a tenth data protection obligation was added, namely, the Data Breach Notification Obligation.
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Protection Obligation, the Retention Limitation Obligation, the Transfer Limitation Obligation and the Openness Obligation (now referred to as the Accountability Obligation).
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Wong, Benjamin (2017). "Data privacy law in Singapore: the Personal Data Protection Act 2012".
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Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (Singapore)

Parliament House, Singapore
Long title
Bill
Yaacob Ibrahim
data protection
Singapore
SingHealth
2018 SingHealth data breach
"Parliament: Public agencies not governed by PDPA because of fundamental differences in how they operate"
doi
10.1093/idpl/ipx016
"On protecting data while enabling innovation: 6 highlights from MPs' rigorous debate on PDPA amendments"
"Parliament: Proposed changes to PDPA include stiffer fines for data breaches, mandatory notification when they occur"
Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2020
"Do Not Call Registry: An easy guide for consumers"
"About Us"
"CDP and two other organisations fined for data privacy breach"
"Courts fined $ 9,000 for second data breach in two years"
"Grab fined $ 10k over fourth data privacy breach in two years"
"Singapore health system hit by 'most serious breach of personal data' in cyberattack; PM Lee's data targeted"
Official text of the Act
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Law of Singapore
President
Government
Cabinet

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