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After numerous attempts over almost two decades (please see our series of client alerts below), the Thailand Personal Data Protection Act was finally approved and endorsed by the National Legislative Assembly on 28 February 2019 (PDPA). The PDPA will be submitted for royal endorsement and subsequent publication in the Government GazetteThis PDPA will change the landscape of personal data protection in Thailand. While the Thai Constitution upholds the right to privacy, Thailand did not have…

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will start to apply as of 25 May 2018, allows EU Member States to enact national data protection laws to supplement the GDPR thereby potentially impacting the intended EU-wide harmonization of data protection law through the GDPR. Germany was the first country to enact such a (complex) law, making ample use of the GDPR opener clauses. Other countries are in the process of drafting, and consulting on, new…