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Personal Data Protection Act, data subject rights

Personal Data Protection Act 2012, ss.21-22

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In force since 2 July 2014.

A data subject rights rule binding private bodies.

As of 30 August 2026.

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.

What this law does

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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 no Part 6B data portability right is asserted here as a numbered Part of the Act.

That conflicts with a quotation elsewhere, in the enforcement instrument, which names Part 6B among the Parts whose contravention grounds a private right of action; that quotation is not independently verified against primary text, because Singapore Statutes Online serves only the table of contents at this URL and not the section body, so the conflict is left open rather than resolved either way. No distinct statutory deletion or erasure right was found in the table of contents structure surveyed.

When LexLint raises it

  • processes_biometrics
  • processes_voice
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Read the law

official statute text, Singapore Statutes Online (SSO)

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