Law on Personal Data Protection, comprehensive regime

The Law on Personal Data Protection (Law No. 91/2025/QH15) is Vietnam's first standalone, comprehensive personal-data statute, replacing Decree 13/2023/ND-CP, which was itself Vietnam's first general personal-data instrument but only a government decree rather than a National Assembly law. A companion implementing decree, Decree 356/2025/ND-CP, took effect alongside the Law on the same date; it was not independently read this pass.

The Law's commencement date is confirmed via the Ministry of Public Security's own portal, a government source; the government's own signed PDF of the Law did not extract cleanly through crawler infrastructure, so the substantive article text in this document comes from a private secondary publisher's English translation (LuatVietnam) rather than the government's own text, and re-verification against a clean extraction of the primary PDF is still needed.

A derived corpus candidate citing this same enactment as Law No. 34/2025/QH15 is incorrect, per the Government Portal's own page title and the Ministry of Public Security's announcement, and is not folded into this document as the same law.