Indonesia’s parliament has launched an information privateness legislation as its first movement months after encountering a number of breaches within the Southeast Asian nation.
On Tuesday, the Indonesian legislators handed the non-public knowledge safety invoice that had been deliberated for greater than a yr. With this legislation, knowledge handlers may turn out to be liable for as much as 5 years of jail for leaking or misusing personal data. People falsifying private knowledge for his or her positive factors is also jailed for as much as six years below the laws.
Moreover, the legislation consists of company fines that may be as excessive as 2% of the corporate’s annual income in case of an information leak. Property of the corporate leaking private knowledge is also confiscated or auctioned off.
The brand new legislation comes following a lot of knowledge leaks and alleged breaches which have impacted not simply people, but in addition numerous corporations and the federal government within the nation. Final yr, a contact-tracing app leaked Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s COVID vaccine data.
With the brand new transfer, Indonesia has turn out to be the fifth nation within the Southeast Asian area to have particular laws on private knowledge safety after Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.
Just like Indonesia, India is going through common incidents associated to non-public knowledge safety. The nation, nonetheless, has but to introduce laws round private knowledge safety. Final month, it withdrew its anticipated private knowledge safety invoice that drew the eye of tech giants.
