Law note · Singapore
Personal Data Protection Act, data subject rights
What it requires
- An app holding the personal data of an individual in Singapore must give that individual a way to access and correct their personal data on request.
When LexLint raises it
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What we found
Part 5 grants a data subject the statutory rights of access (s.21) and correction (s.22) of their personal data; the Act's own consolidated commencement note records Part 5 as having commenced 2 July 2014 with the rest of Parts 3 to 7.
A data portability right, headed Part 6B and added by the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2020, does not appear anywhere in the Act's own table of contents on Singapore Statutes Online, which lists every Part from Part 1 through Part 10 and goes directly from Part 6A to Part 7 with no Part 6B heading between them, so this document no longer asserts a Part 6B data portability right exists as a numbered Part of the Act.
This conflicts with a quoted extract elsewhere in this document (the enforcement instrument's s.48O(1) pin), which names Part 6B among the Parts whose contravention grounds a private right of action; that quote could not be independently re-verified against primary text this pass (the section body text was not reachable through the crawler's read of this URL, only the table of contents), so it is flagged here as needing re-verification rather than silently resolved either way. No distinct statutory deletion or erasure right was found in the table of contents structure surveyed.