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Vietnam's draft personal-data protection law retains and expands stringent requirements from PDP decree

By Jet Damazo-Santos ( September 25, 2024, 05:20 GMT | Insight) -- Vietnam’s draft personal data protection law retains many of the issues in the country’s 2023 PDP decree that tech industry players were hoping would be addressed, such as the 72-hour deadline to address data subject requests and the lack of recognition for legitimate interests, and even expands them. An industry group representing tech companies including Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta said the requirement to honor the rights of data subjects within a tight deadline was “technically infeasible and not aligned with international standards.”Vietnam’s draft personal-data protection law, or PDP, retains many of the issues in the country’s 2023 PDP decree that tech industry players were hoping would be addressed, such as the 72-hour deadline to address data subject requests and the lack of recognition for legitimate interests. ...

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