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View all search resultsThe administrative guidance, which also requires a report from Line by late May, was issued as the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry judged the app operator failed to provide a sufficient surveillance system to protect the "secrets of communications" as required by law.
Currently, the country’s e-commerce industry only has government regulation No. 80/2019 and Trade Ministerial Regulation No. 50/2020, which will come into effect in November as a regulatory umbrella.
Shinto said that several concepts such as the concept of “specific personal data” and “explicit consent” mentioned in the draft were still not aligned with international practices and needed to be reconsidered.
Businesses that manage large quantities of personal data have asked the House of Representatives not to regulate anonymized data in the personal data protection bill, saying that it could hamper their business development.
The alliance urged the government to issue data privacy regulations that specifically address the PeduliLindungi app and to be transparent about the data breach that occurred in PeduliLindungi’s database.
Financial institutions including mobile payment service providers and peer-to-peer lending platforms have been granted access to the government’s civil registry data to expedite data verification and prevent fraud.
Teleconferencing platforms such as Zoom have become very popular during the COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia, with companies implementing work-from-home policies. However, people now face the risk of "Zoombombing", a type of cyberattack in which unknown users drop in on Zoom sessions, often uninvited, to disturb the meetings, often by displaying lewd images and messages.
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