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On 4 October 2018, Malaysia’s Communications and Multimedia Minister Mr. Gobind Singh Deo announced that Malaysia will review the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Act 2010 (PDPA) as Malaysia “needs to be on par with global legislation on data protection”.  The Minister hinted that the updated PDPA “could be modelled after the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and added that the Ministry is looking to work with other ASEAN countries to develop a framework on data protection.   ...