Data Protection Act in Malaysia: Where It Is, Where It's Going, Where It Should Be
Where It Is 
There is no overall right to control sensitive personal information about yourself in Malaysia. Personal data is viewed as a commodity and firms that collect it expect to be able to reuse or resell it. That data is often stored insecurely and accessed by unauthorized people.
The emergence of new technologies changes market trends and contributes to the creation of the new global market place for electronic commerce. Personal information, for example, has become a valuable commodity that can generate jobs, businesses and customer services. This has consequently led to an increasing pressure to collect, hold, process and use personal data more than ever before. This increase in trans-border flow of data, however,  has also led to a corresponding increase in the anxiety levels over the individual's privacy, particularly information privacy and personal data.


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