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A Sea Change in Malaysia’s Data Protection Framework (Part 2)

– The coming into force of the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2024 –

There have been several developments in the amendments to the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (“PDPA”) since our previous newsletter on the topic which can be accessed here. On 24 December 2024, the Minister of Digital of Malaysia designated the dates on which the provisions of the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2024 (“Amendment Act”) will come into force, by publishing a notification in the gazette. The Amendment Act will be implemented in 3 stages. The dates on which the amendments to the Amendment Act have or will come into force are as follows:(i)1 January 2025 - Sections 7, 11, 13 and 14 of the Amendment Act. These amendments do not impose any new or particular obligations on data controllers...To read the full article, please see the PDF file

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Wan May LEONG

  • Associate Office Partner
  • Kuala Lumpur*1

She previously lived in Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore and is fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Malay. She has extensive experience and local expertise to advise clients from both legal and practical perspective.


She was admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 2013 and is the managing partner of our strategic alliance firm in Malaysia, WM Leong & Co. She is also a partner at Nishimura & Asahi (Singapore) LLP.

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Since 2010, he has been continuously handling transactions, disputes, and regulatory matters related to IT technology and the IT industry, intellectual property matters including measures against counterfeit products, and data protection matters concerning personal data and trade secrets. He also has abundant knowledge on cybersecurity practices and is registered as a registered information security specialist (national qualification in Japan). After studying in the U.S. and the U.K., he moved to Vietnam and then Thailand. Since then, he has been involved in the above-mentioned matters not only in Japan but also in Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and other Southeast Asian countries. While there are few Japanese lawyers in Southeast Asia who specialize in the above-mentioned matters, he supports international companies by utilizing both his abundant knowledge and practical experience in the above-mentioned matters and his local experience and network in Southeast Asia.