{"id":76398,"date":"2020-05-30T00:55:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=76398"},"modified":"2020-05-30T00:55:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T16:55:49","slug":"business-premises-must-follow-procedures-in-handling-personal-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=76398","title":{"rendered":"Business premises must follow procedures in handling personal data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/malaysia-bank-1024x610.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/malaysia-bank-1024x610.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/malaysia-bank-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/malaysia-bank-768x457.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/malaysia-bank.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>KUALA LUMPUR: A shopping centre takes a creative approach to ensuring that its patrons practise safe distancing while carrying out their banking activities at its premises. This is in line with the SOP for businesses allowed to operate during the CMCO period. Photo courtesy of BERNAMA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, May 30 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0All business premises allowed to operate during the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO)\u00a0must comply fully with the operating procedures with regards to the collection, processing and storing of\u00a0personal data, as set by the Communications and Multimedia Ministry (KKMM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KKMM in a statement Friday said the standard procedures had been approved in a\u00a0special ministerial committee\u00a0meeting\u00a0on the\u00a0implementation\u00a0of\u00a0the Movement Control Order (MCO) on May 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the statement,&nbsp;only the customer\u2019s or visitor\u2019s name, contact number,&nbsp;date and time of visit, should be&nbsp;recorded and it was up to the premises owners to implement either manual or electronic recording.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, a notice&nbsp;must be displayed and easily seen to inform visitors or customers on the purpose of the personal data and that the data&nbsp;is used only for the purpose of contact tracing in accordance with&nbsp;the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988&nbsp;(Act 342).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;business premises must also&nbsp;ensure that the&nbsp;data obtained are accurate, complete and&nbsp;not misleading and the information&nbsp;could only be kept up to six months after the Conditional MCO&nbsp;ends, after which all data&nbsp;must be destroyed and deleted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Non-compliance of the procedures&nbsp;is&nbsp;an offence, and if convicted, premises owners could be&nbsp;fined up to RM300,000 or jailed for two years or both,&nbsp;under the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (Act 7090.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the procedures are subject to changes, as&nbsp;and when new rulings are introduced&nbsp;by the government, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As such the public need not worry about sharing their personal data at any business premises for the purpose of&nbsp;COVID-19 contact tracing as KKMM would conduct continuous monitoring,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any complaints regarding the implementation of this advisory may be filed through the Personal Data Protection System (SPDP) at https:\/\/registered.pdp.gov.my.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, May 30 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0All business premises allowed to operate during the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO)\u00a0must comply fully with the operating procedures with regards to the collection, processing and storing of\u00a0personal data, as set by the Communications and Multimedia Ministry (KKMM). 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