Gobind: We’ll update data protection

By YIMIE YONG

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is looking to update its data protection laws by the middle of next year to prevent data breaches, says Communications and Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo.

He said the update could be modelled after the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which took effect in May.

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