MPS hosts international workshop on drafting policy on personal data protection

Delivering his opening speech, Deputy Minister Luong Tam Quang underlined that information technology (IT) has been applied to every aspect of people’s lives, revealing the fact that Vietnam is one of the countries with the highest internet user growth rate with nearly 80 million internet users.

Deputy Minister Luong Tam Quang voiced that many people are however unaware of protecting their personal information and data, leading to various complicated cases of leaking, stealing, and trading personal data in cyberspace. 

In fact, there are more and more individuals and groups collecting, analyzing, and processing personal data for different purposes while without a mechanism to protect personal data in cyberspace. That fact poses real threats to national security, social order and safety, as well as legitimate rights and interests of the affected organizations and individuals.

At the workshop, delegates mainly focused on reviewing orientations, viewpoints and main contents of the drafting policy on personal data protection, and discussing recommendations and comments on the drafting policy on personal data protection given by domestic and foreign organizations and businesses.

Delegates also actively gave their opinions from different perspectives, shared their knowledge, cited multi-dimensional law-making experiences of countries, as well as referred to recommendations of domestic and foreign state management agencies and Vietnamese experts on drafting policies and laws on personal data protection.

After the in-depth discussion, delegates reached consensus that there is a urgent need for a mechanism to protect personal data in cyberspace, especially in the current context of increasing violations of personal data in cyberspace.