On March 30, Dino Santaniello, head of Tilleke & Gibbins’ Laos office; Jay Cohen, partner and director of the firm’s Cambodia office; Ross Taylor, counsel in the firm’s Myanmar office; and Sochanmalisphoung Vannavuth, an associate in the Cambodia office, delivered a webinar explaining data compliance obligations in their respective countries. The webinar, which was organized in conjunction with the Australian Chambers of Commerce in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar, aimed to give business operators in these jurisdictions a clear understanding of their compliance duties relating to personal data. In this webinar, each speaker addressed the following topics: Regulations and legal provisions that affect the handling of personal data in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar; Definitions of personal data and identification of relevant parties; Legal requirements for and limitations on the collection and processing of personal data; Duties imposed upon data controllers; and Penalties for breaching local data protection laws. Full video recordings of each section of the webinar are available (by country) below. Cambodia   Laos   Myanmar

On March 24, Tilleke & Gibbins collaborated with the British Chamber of Commerce in Thailand and Grant Thornton to host a webinar entitled “Practical Implementation of PDPA Compliance Measures.” Presented by Athistha (Nop) Chitranukroh, partner and director of Tilleke & Gibbins’ corporate and commercial group and Certified Information Privacy Professional/Asia (CIPP/A), and two members of Grant Thornton’s team in Thailand, the session offered practical insights on implementing policies and procedures to maintain compliance with Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA). Among others, this included discussions on the following topics: Consent management Privacy notices ROPA (Record of Processing Activities) Data incident management Data subject rights/request management Grandfather provisions (Section 95) The webinar is now available to watch online below.