“Amid a business environment that is constantly disrupted by technology, it is impractical to adopt the approach of a box-checking exercise when handling personal data,” says PDPC commissioner Tan Kiat How.
SINGAPORE (July 15): Singapore on Monday launched a Guide to Accountability in personal data protection, as the city-state continues to ramp up its preparations for a future digital economy that is expected to generate large amounts of personal data.
The guide will see a shift in emphasis from a compliance-based approach in the management of personal data, which Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) says is increasingly impractical and insufficient to keep pace with developments in data processing activities.
