Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA)
Singapore's comprehensive data protection statute, binding and enforceable, establishing the consent obligation, notification obligation, purpose limitation, transfer limitation, accountability obligation, and a defined set of exceptions (including the Publicly Available Exception) under which consent is not required.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Data Governance: The Data Chair.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
Singapore's comprehensive data protection statute, binding and enforceable, establishing the consent obligation, notification obligation, purpose limitation, transfer limitation, accountability obligation, and a defined set of exceptions (including the Publicly Available Exception) under which consent is not required.
Singapore's binding data protection statute. Its consent, notification, and data-transfer obligations belong to organizations; the PDPC's AI-specific guidance is advisory interpretation of how those obligations apply to AI.
Singapore's binding statute governing the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data, including the Access Obligation, the Correction Obligation, and the Protection Obligation. The two PDPC guideline sets discussed in this topic interpret how the PDPA applies to generative AI; they do not replace it.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Your Regulator Probably Isn't Brussels · Ethical and Responsible AI and Operational Governance, AI Literacy & Professional Conduct
- PDPA for AI: What Singapore Actually Allows · Consent, Purpose, and the Law of Data, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- The RAG corpus under Singapore's PDPA: access, correction, and what "delete" actually means · Feeding the Machines, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.