The Personal Data Protection Department ("JPDP" or Jabatan Perlindungan Data Peribadi) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Futurise Sdn Bhd ("Futurise"), Malaysia's national regulatory sandbox body, to develop seven new guidelines to complement the forthcoming changes and amendments that will be introduced in the upcoming bill ("PDPA Amendment Bill") amending the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010 ("PDPA").
The PDPA Amendment bill is expected to be tabled in Malaysian Parliament sometime this year, most likely in the June 2024 parliamentary sitting.
The seven new guidelines to be developed by JPDP and Futurise are:
- Notification of Data Breach Guidelines;
- Data Protection Officers Guidelines;
- Data Portability Guidelines;
- Cross Border Data Transfer Guidelines and Mechanism;
- Data Protection Impact Assessment Guidelines;
- Privacy by Design Guidelines; and
- Profiling and Automated Decision Making Guidelines.
To-date, JPDP has not provided further details about when the guidelines will be issued.
