A BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF GLOBAL DATA PRIVACY REGULATIONS AND THE LESSONS FOR MALAYSIA
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22452/sejarah.vol28no2.9Keywords:
Data privacy, privacy in Malaysia, PDPA, GDPRAbstract
In this data-driven society, diverse actors always track and monitor our activities and consequently, we are losing our privacy. Therefore, the objective of this study is to discuss the agenda of privacy and data protection has become one of the hot-button issues in global policies, politics, and business nowadays. This article is using qualitative method. Thus, the appeal of understanding privacy is becoming crucial today for not only to the legal scholars but also to the scholars of all other majors and disciplines. Keeping this in view, the findings of this article outlines a precise historical account of global data privacy regulations having Malaysian data privacy regime in focus with recent developments in the field.
Received: 5 September 2019
Reviewed: 21 November 2019
Accepted: 28 December 2019
