PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION ACT: TO-DO’s FOR EMPLOYERS (Thailand)

Author: Ponpun Krataykhwan, Yuyu Komine (co-author)

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Publisher: Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Journal / Book: NO&T Asia Legal Review No.14 (August, 2019)

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Background
Enacted on 27 May 2019, the Personal Information Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019) (“PIPA”) will be fully effective from 28 May 2020. Upon the full enforcement, PIPA will protect Personal Information (as defined below) by imposing various duties on a Personal Information Controller (as defined below), where non-compliance thereof may result in administrative fines of up to Baht 5 million, civil liabilities and criminal penalties.

In this article, we will discuss on what duties an employer as a Personal Information Controller will have under PIPA and what they could do in order to prepare.

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