This webinar explains the latest data protection amendments, their impact on business operations, and the steps organisations must take to strengthen compliance and DPO capability.
Description
Free Webinar: PDPA Amendment 2024: What Malaysian Organisations Must Act on Now
This webinar will help organisations understand the key amendments to the data protection framework, including terminology changes, increased penalties, data portability rights, and expanded obligations for Data Controllers and Data Processors. It also highlights the business and operational impact of these changes, such as risk assessment, policy updates, the need to review the Code of Practice (CoP), and the development of a compliance roadmap, while introducing the Data Protection Officer (DPO) pathway and core competencies needed to progress from theory to practice.
Course Outline
Key Amendments' Frequently asked questions
 - Terminology change and reclassification
 - Increased penalties
 - Data Subject's portability right
 - Expansion of obligation
 - Accountability of Data Controller
 - Responsibility of Data Processor
Business and Operational impact
 - Understanding risk and impact to business and operation
 - Does Code of Practice (CoP) need total revamp?
 - Internal and external policy update
 - Compliance roadmap
 
Capacity development
 - Introduction to Data Protection Officer (DPO) Pathway
 - DPO competencies from theoretical to practical
 - Becoming an advanced DPO