KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 5 — The National Registration Department (JPN) has confirmed there has been no evidence of a MyKad data breach or suspicious transactions involving its system.

CALIFORNIA, Nov 12 — Meta Platforms plans to offer Instagram and Facebook users in Europe the option to receive “less personalised ads”, the tech giant announced today, in an effort to allay regulators’ mounting concerns.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 — The National Artificial Intelligence Office (NAIO), which will be launched next month, will study the need to upgrade existing laws or enact new ones to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) and other new technologies.

SEOUL, Nov 6 — South Korea has ordered Facebook owner Meta Platforms to pay ₩21.62 billion (RM68.15 million) in fines after finding it had collected sensitive user data and given it to advertisers without a legal basis, Seoul’s data protection agency said.

AMSTERDAM, Aug 26 — Ride-hailing platform Uber has been fined £290 million (RM1.4 billion) in the Netherlands for sending the personal data of European taxi drivers to the United States in violation of European Union rules, Dutch data protection watchdog DPA said today.

BRUSSELS, Aug 12 — Social media platform X today was the target of complaints in nine European Union countries over artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI allegedly collecting personal data without users’ consent, Anadolu Agency reported.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 — The Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Bill 2024, which aims to increase penalties from RM300,000 to RM1 million for offences committed by data controllers or processors who violate personal data protection principles, was tabled for its first reading at the Dewan Rakyat today.

PUTRAJAYA, July 4 — The Cabinet has approved the proposed amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (Act 709), which are expected to be tabled in the current Parliament session, said Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo.

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 16 — The Notification of Data Breach Guidelines and the Data Protection Officers Guidelines are among the seven guidelines that will be developed under the Personal Data Protection Act 2010, said Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 — 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 to protect individual personal data.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 4 — Malaysia and Singapore reaffirmed bilateral cooperation on personal data protection, cyber security, and digital economy on January 30 in Singapore.

JAKARTA, Sept 20 — Indonesia's House of Representatives passed a data privacy bill on Tuesday, Minister of Communication and Information Technology Johnny G.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — The National Security Council (NSC) via the National Cyber Security Agency (NACSA) is calling on government agencies and private organisations to tighten the security and protection of personal data owned by them.