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Comment: Spate of regulatory changes signal it's time to take data privacy seriously in Southeast Asia

By Jet Damazo-Santos
  • 27 Oct 2022 03:33
  • 27 Oct 2022 03:33
After years of incremental developments in Southeast Asia's data-privacy landscape, things now appear to be changing — fast. Over the span of just a few months, the risk of failing to comply with data-protection regulations significantly increased in almost all the region’s major economies. 
In June, Thailand's Personal Data Protection

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Jet Damazo-Santos

Correspondent, Jakarta


Jet Damazo-Santos has been covering antitrust, data protection and other compliance issues in key jurisdictions in Southeast Asia for MLex full time since 2018. She has almost two decades of journalism experience in the Philippines and Indonesia, where she was the associate editor for the Jakarta Globe and the Jakarta bureau chief for Rappler Indonesia prior to joining MLex. She holds a master's degree in Applied Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific.

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