Ministry studying need to create post of data protection officer - Fahmi

The Communications and Digital Ministry is studying the need to create the post of data protection officer in organisations through the amendment of the Personal Data Protection Act (Act 709) to protect individual personal data.

Minister Fahmi Fadzil said the matter was among those considered in the amendment of the act which is expected to be tabled in Parliament as early as this October.

“One of the aspects we are looking at is the (need to have) data protection officer, as it is important for an organisation to protect its data… because this matter was also raised by...