By Shawn Lim

Singapore has announced it plans to introduce a data sharing requirement to improve its Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) at the 2019 Mobile World Congress.

The PDPA, which acts like the GDPR, was drawn up in 2012 and came into full effect in 2014, governs the way companies in Singapore can collect, store, use and disclose data.

The new requirement, which is called data portability officially, wants to ensure consumers in Singapore are able to switch from one service provider to another without losing their records like purchase histories. It will also allow them to transfer Read full story ›

Source: The Drum