Personal Data Protection Order 2025, data-subject rights

Personal Data Protection Order, 2025 (S 1/2025), ss.18-20

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In force 9 months, effective 1 January 2026.

A data subject rights rule binding private bodies.

As of 29 August 2026.

What it requires

Brunei's Personal Data Protection Order 2025 has granted an individual a right to access personal data an organisation holds about them, including a voiceprint or faceprint, and a right to have inaccurate personal data corrected, since these rights (Part 5) took effect 1 January 2026 under Government Gazette No. S 11/2025. The Order names no separate deletion or data-portability right.

What this law does

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Part 5 of the Order grants an individual a right of access to personal data an organisation holds about them (section 18) and a right to have inaccurate personal data corrected (section 19), with section 20 allowing either right to be exercised on the individual's behalf, for example by a legal representative.

As with Singapore's PDPA, the Order names no distinct deletion or erasure right and no data-portability provision; access and correction, subject to exceptions listed in Schedules 4 and 5, are the only named statutory rights. These rights reach a voiceprint or faceprint exactly like any other personal data the Order covers, since it draws no sensitive-category or biometric-specific distinction.

Government Gazette No. S 11/2025 confirms the Minister appointed 1 January 2026 as the commencement date for Parts 3 to 9 (which includes Part 5) of the Order, so this Part's rights are in effect from that date.

When LexLint raises it

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Read the law

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