PDPA in Thailand enforceable from 1 June 2021 [Brought to you by Chandler MHM]

Thailand’s first data privacy law, the Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019) (“PDPA”) has been temporarily postponed until 31 May 2021. Assuming that there is no further postponement, the PDPA will become largely enforceable on 1 June 2021. However, to date, the necessary supplementary regulations have not been issued, therefore rendering some parts of the PDPA incomplete and subsequently unenforceable. In February of 2021, the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, the Office of Personal Data Protection Commission, and Chulalongkorn University jointly arranged unofficial public hearing sessions for Group 1 of the subordinate laws. This was to discuss the regulations urgently required to clarify certain details of the PDPA to enable businesses to understand and comply with the PDPA. The hearings were divided into seven sessions according to the type of industry….