After a two-year wait, the country's much-needed Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) came into effect on Wednesday. Yet instead of eliciting a sense of relief it brought about widespread confusion and near panic.
People were panicked as they thought they might be fined or even imprisoned for simple online activities such as taking a selfie or uploading images of others without their consent, or even penalised for having passively recorded images of others with their home CCTV. Other worries, not all of them based on facts, have included hefty fines for running afoul of the PDPA.
