NO&T Thailand Legal Update
Background
Despite the postponement of the Personal Data Protection Act of 2019 (“PDPA”) to 1 June 2021 by virtue of the ‘Royal Decree Prescribing the Data Controller’s Organizations and Businesses to which the Personal Data Protection Act of 2019 shall not be applied of 2020’ (“Royal Decree”), which generally applies to the data controllers operating in certain businesses (“Data Controllers”), the Data Controllers are still subject to compliance with the security measures for the protection of personal data (“Security Measures”) in accordance with the standard prescribed by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society.
On 24 June 2020, the ‘Notification of Ministry of Digital Economy and Society Re: Standard of Security Measures on the Personal Data of 2020’ (“Notification”) was issued with a limited effective period from 18 July 2020 to 31 May 2021. As a result, the Data Controllers, shall still provide the Security Measures in accordance with the minimum standard per the Notification, as elaborated below.
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