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MALAYsIA
MALAYsIA
An InDIVIDUAL sHALL BE GIVEn ACCEss to HIs PERsonAL DAtA HELD
BY A DAtA UsER AnD BE ABLE to CoRRECt tHAt PERsonAL DAtA
• Access Principle
offences
An individual shall be given access to his personal data held by a data
Th e following are criminal off ences under the tabled PDP legislation that are
user and be able to correct that personal data where the personal data is
punishable with substantial fi nes and/or imprisonment:
inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or not up-to-date.
• Contravening any of the aforementioned personal data protection principles
• Transfer of personal data to places outside Malaysia
• Failure to register as a data user for a specifi ed class of data users
A data user shall not transfer any personal data to a place outside
Malaysia, unless to such a place as has been specifi ed in the Gazette by
• Continuing to process personal data aft er registration is revoked
the minister. Th e place specifi ed must have laws substantially similar to • Unlawful collection or disclosure of personal data
the Malaysian PDP legislation or have an adequate level of protection in
• Processing of personal data aft er the individual has withdrawn his consent
relation to the processing of personal data that is at least equivalent to the
• Failure to comply with the Personal Data Protection Commissioner’s
level of protection aff orded by the tabled PDP legislation.
requirements to cease the processing of personal data likely to cause
Registration of data users
damage or distress, or for the purposes of direct marketing.
Th e minister will specify in the Gazette who shall be required to be registered
as data users.
Timothy Siaw is a partner in the intellectual property and technology
Exemptions
department of Messrs Shearn Delamore & Co. He can be contacted at:
timothy@shearndelamore.com
Personal data processed by an individual only for the purposes of his
personal, family or household aff airs, including recreational purposes, are
exempt from the provisions of the tabled PDP legislation. Partial exemptions
are provided for personal data processed for the prevention or detection Timothy Siaw graduated with a Bsc and an LLB from Monash
of crime, apprehension or prosecution of off enders, and assessment or
University, Australia and is an advocate and solicitor of the High
collection of tax and duty, personal data processed in relation to information
Court of Malaya. He is also a registered trademark, industrial
about the physical or mental health of an individual, data processed for
designs and patent agent.
preparing statistics or carrying out research, and personal data processed
only for journalistic, literary or artistic purposes.
112 World Intellectual Property Review Digest 2009 www.worldipreview.com
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