Following the passing of the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Bill 2024 by the Malaysian Parliament in July 2024, three public consultation papers have been issued in relation to the implementation of the following impending new legal obligations:

• Notifying the Personal Data Protection Commissioner and affected data subjects for personal data breach.
• Appointing data protection officer(s).
• Effecting the data subject’s right to data portability.

The deadline to provide feedback is 6 September 2024 (Friday).