Personal Data Protection Acts: Concepts and Review

Mayas Aljibawi, Roslan Ismail

Abstract: In today environment there is a lot of data about people have been collected, processed and stored. This creates a situation where people?s information are freely distributed and makes individuals' data available to be disclosed easily without the person?s permission. It is quite challenging for people to control and manage their information, especially for those who has less familiarity with how to use computer and internet privacy and secure all of their personal data. The PDP act is important to manage the using of employees personal data inside organizations environment to identify rules and responsibilities of employees and organization sides to protect the personal data. The main challenges that faces the PDP inside any organization is the weakness of understanding the PDP act and the wrong systematic implementations of PDP acts. The objective of this paper is to lend some understanding on the PDP acts. The paper recommends that the awareness of PDP acts is important and a leads to better understanding to override the problem of data disclosure.

Keywords: Personal Data Protection, PDPA, Data Privacy, Security