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Personal Data Protection Act

Wheeling & Dealing in MCMC? Part 11 – Violation of PDPA by MCS Providers

Short code
This is one of the examples of the Short Code “63365”.

 

Prior to the enactment of Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA), we hear a lot of the indiscriminate selling of personal data of customers by unscrupulous officers in telcos and companies, which keep customers profile in their data base.

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Wheeling & Dealing In MCMC? Part 10 – PDPA was ignored!

Certain "special companies" have access to our cellphone numbers and other particulars. How could this happened?
Certain “special companies” have access to our cellphone numbers and other particulars.  What is MCMC doing about this? Dishing out more licences?

Many telco’s so-called content services (MCS) providers have been indiscriminately violating Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA) by sms blasting of unsolicited advertisements/promotions daily to million of cellphone subscribers for a fees with press of a button. Why is this possible?

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