The awaiting birth?

After 10 years, Malaysians are awaiting the birth of the Malaysia Personal Data Protection Bill, being an Act, soon. Now, it's in the second and third reading at Parliament. I predict it will be gazetted by end of this year, or perhaps, by the first quarter of 2010. Back in 2002, Professor Dr. Ida Madieha wrote a very interesting article on the Bill, by paraphrasing some of the relevant sections vis-a'-vis issues on e-commerce and privacy.

I fervently hope that the analysis and comments have been taken into consideration by the legislator and consultant. Once the Bill is ready to kick-off, there will be potential compliance costs. It is anticipated that organisations and companies are required to get ready with the potential transformation: internal compliance road shows, compliance costs, strategies and awareness for and to all Malaysian stakeholders on data protection. Particularly, the ICT and banking sectors. It's just the beginning for Malaysians.

Cursorily, a brief overview of other Asia Pacific countries on data protection and privacy is readable here (published by DLA Piper, as at March 2009).

Wondering how the Bill responds to RFID? (in Malaysia).

Tag Broker Model to protect privacy?

This paper is quite technical to comprehend. Nevertheless, it sounds interesting as to how such a model has been proposed to protect privacy within an RFID enabled setting. Briefly, this article discusses on such a tag broker model approach for an enabled Mobile RFID which is compatible with Near Field Communication (NFC). I am wondering whether is there any literature that touches on data protection and privacy issues in relation to NFC? Reason being: NFC, is an industry standard that results to the technical compatibility and operability, deriving from RFID. Or, maybe, it's a subset of RFID as well? Pondering.

RFID in youtube

This video is by the Metro group. Easy to be understood by a layman like me. This second video, is also interesting, with additional perspectives by privacy advocates in the US. I personally like this third video - practical and eye opening. This, on another hand, explains about microchip implantation. Medical technology has made this verichip useful as practised by this Harvard Doctor. Essentially, this looks like RFID has started to rule the world. Interestingly, this guy has guided viewer how to remove RFID chip from an Oyster card. That is cool. In the UK, this video looks informative. Themed as Big Brother Is Watching (it has 3 sequels). In a broader context, this video canvasses Britain's surveillance state, in general. Worth to watch.

RFID deployment was put on halt; the Philippine's case study

RFID, has been said as illegal and expensive. This is what the views that could be adduced from the people. Wondering whether the republic has considered data protection and privacy terms prior to implementation or anticipating the same in the future.

Mobile-RFID; a new hype?

This is an interesting move by RFID solutions architect; Mobile-RFID is now a hype.