Your personal data is vital and you have the responsibility to protect your personal data. With the 2020 pdpa course, you have full control over how your personal data is collected, disclosed, and used. 

What You Should Know about the Personal Data Protection Act – PDPC 

By doing so, you can request any organizations that possess your personal data to give you access to your data whenever you find it necessary to amend. Here is what you need to know about the Personal Data Protection Acts data protection rules: 

• Collection, Use, and Disclosure

The personal data that most organizations collected before the personal data protection came into effect is still used for the various purposes they were collected. However, you can inform them that you do not consent to their use of your personal data.

For personal data the organization’s now collect after the provision of the personal data protection, all organizations have to seek your consent for the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data.

To gain your consent, the organization has to inform you of the reason(s) of the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data. You can ask the organization for any contact of a person who can respond to your questions about the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data. 

Have at the back of your mind that organizations shouldn’t give you a condition of supplying a product or service. They should not require your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data beyond what is reasonable for that product or service. 

However, if you voluntarily provided your personal data to any organization for a purpose, it means you have consented to use of your data for that particular purpose.

You can choose to withdraw the consent of your data by an organization at any point, but with reasonable notice. The organization should inform you of the possible consequences of your withdrawal and should stop the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data.

• Access and Correction 

Another thing to know is that you can request access to your personal data that a particular organization control. You can also request information about the ways they used or disclosed your personal data within the year or the year before your request.

However, in respect of some types of personal data or circumstances, organizations are prohibited from granting you such access. 

Also, you can request an organization to correct or omit an error in your personal data. The organization can, in turn, send your corrected data to other specific organizations with your consent (to which your data was disclosed within the year that the correction was made). 

• Care of Personal Data 

Organizations should be careful to ensure that your personal data with them is complete and accurate. By doing so, your data is accurate when used to make decisions that affect you or when disclosed to other organizations. 

These organizations should ensure proper security arrangements to protect your personal data to prevent any unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, modification, or any other risks. 

Organizations should learn to properly get rid of your personal data when it is no longer in use for any business or legal purposes.

Any organization with your personal data can only transfer your data outside of your country if the organization has put in place measures to ensure the security of your personal data is similar to the protection under PDPA.

However, if these organizations are exempted by the PDPC, measures will eventually be in place in due course. 

Conclusion

Your personal information is very essential to you and should only be given to reliable PDPA organizations. Feel free to correct and withdraw your personal data at any point in time. 

We hope these new findings will help you know how to go about consenting to give your data and the rules for protecting your personal data.