Law on Personal Data Protection, comprehensive regime

Law No. 91/2025/QH15, passed by the 15th National Assembly, 9th session, 26 June 2025, in force 1 January 2026

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In force 9 months, effective 1 January 2026.

A comprehensive regime rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 29 August 2026.

What it requires

An app that collects, uses, or discloses the personal data of an individual in Vietnam must comply with the Law on Personal Data Protection, Law No. 91/2025/QH15, in force since 1 January 2026.

What this law does

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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; its provisions are not described here.

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 does not yield extractable text, so the substantive article text here comes from a private secondary publisher's English translation (LuatVietnam) rather than from the government's own text, and is not verified against the primary PDF.

A citation of 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.

When LexLint raises it

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Read the law

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substantive article text read via a private secondary translation (LuatVietnam) after the official signed PDF failed clean text extraction

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