The Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) came into effect in 2014 in Singapore; other similar laws exist in some ASEAN countries, with new countries being added. Getting things right in Singapore, together with other ASEAN countries in which you operate doesn’t need to be expensive or obstruct you in getting on with your business. The same can be said about compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union and, since Brexit, with the equivalent law in the United Kingdom.

But many will argue now that privacy / data protection is old hat; that we should now be looking at artificial intelligence and data governance too. I agree. And add cybersecurity to the mix – not in the technical/IT sense, but more generally: we see headlines about data breaches that are described as ‘a highly sophisticated / state-sponsored attack’. In reality, what has happened turns out to be like leaving your home without locking the front door or leaving windows wide open and, when disaster strikes, describing the robbery as ‘highly sophisticated, blah, blah, blah’.

Let’s talk about privacy / data protection and/or AI and/or data governance and/or cybersecurity and how I can assist your business in its success.