- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Data Privacy Laws in Asia—Context and History
- 2 International Structures Affecting Data Privacy in Asia
- 3 Standards by Which to Assess a Country’s Data Privacy Laws
- 4 Hong Kong SAR—New Life for an Established Law
- 5 South Korea—The Most Innovative Law
- 6 Taiwan—A Stronger Law, on a Constitutional Base
- 7 China—From Warring States to Convergence?
- 8 Japan—The Illusion of Protection
- 9 Macau SAR—The ‘Euro Model’
- 10 Singapore—Uncertain Scope, Strong Powers
- 11 Malaysia—ASEAN’s First Data Privacy Law in Force
- 12 The Philippines and Thailand—ASEAN’s Incomplete Comprehensive Laws
- 13 Vietnam and Indonesia—ASEAN’s Sectoral Laws
- 14 Privacy in the Other Five Southeast Asian (ASEAN) States
- 15 India—Confusion Raj, with Outsourcing
- 16 Privacy in the Other Seven South Asian (SAARC) States
- 17 Comparing Protections and Principles—An Asian Privacy Standard?
- 18 Assessing Data Privacy Enforcement in Asia—Alternatives and Evidence
- 19 International Developments—Future Prospects for Asia
- 20 Asian Data Privacy Laws—Trajectories, Lessons, and Optimism
- Index
Singapore—Uncertain Scope, Strong Powers
Singapore—Uncertain Scope, Strong Powers
- Chapter:
- (p.288) (p.289) 10 Singapore—Uncertain Scope, Strong Powers
- Source:
- Asian Data Privacy Laws
- Author(s):
Graham Greenleaf
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act 2012 is one of the most recent data privacy laws in Asia, fully in force only from mid-2014. Singaporean law does not provide a very supportive context for human rights protections. This chapter explains that the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) will administer a law with a very limited scope, covering only the private sector but with uncertain exceptions. The Act’s data protection principles are a minimal version of a ‘normal’ data privacy law, with a few stronger additions. However, the enforcement provisions provide a serious and multi-faceted ‘enforcement pyramid’. Although there are as yet no decisions under the law, the PDPC Guidelines illustrate its expected operation. It is data protection law intended to have a ‘pro-business’ effect, but it could be enforced strongly within its narrow scope.
Keywords: data protection, privacy, Asia, Singapore, ASEAN, PDPC, data protection authority
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Data Privacy Laws in Asia—Context and History
- 2 International Structures Affecting Data Privacy in Asia
- 3 Standards by Which to Assess a Country’s Data Privacy Laws
- 4 Hong Kong SAR—New Life for an Established Law
- 5 South Korea—The Most Innovative Law
- 6 Taiwan—A Stronger Law, on a Constitutional Base
- 7 China—From Warring States to Convergence?
- 8 Japan—The Illusion of Protection
- 9 Macau SAR—The ‘Euro Model’
- 10 Singapore—Uncertain Scope, Strong Powers
- 11 Malaysia—ASEAN’s First Data Privacy Law in Force
- 12 The Philippines and Thailand—ASEAN’s Incomplete Comprehensive Laws
- 13 Vietnam and Indonesia—ASEAN’s Sectoral Laws
- 14 Privacy in the Other Five Southeast Asian (ASEAN) States
- 15 India—Confusion Raj, with Outsourcing
- 16 Privacy in the Other Seven South Asian (SAARC) States
- 17 Comparing Protections and Principles—An Asian Privacy Standard?
- 18 Assessing Data Privacy Enforcement in Asia—Alternatives and Evidence
- 19 International Developments—Future Prospects for Asia
- 20 Asian Data Privacy Laws—Trajectories, Lessons, and Optimism
- Index
