Simplifying The Key Obligations Under The Singapore Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA)
- Ericz
- Jul 8, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 22, 2025
Learn how we simplify the key privacy obligations for businesses and provide tips on helping companies to get started
What you need to know?
Key obligations. In today's interconnected world, understanding and implementing privacy requirements can seem daunting. To simplify this complex topic, we summarize the key obligations into 2 main concepts below.
Why is it important for businesses?
Ensuring privacy requirements under the PDPA brings about several benefits, which can be summarized into 3 points below.
Protecting customer trust and reputation, increased business opportunities. Maintaining data privacy safeguards customer trust and confidence. Breaches can damage a business' reputation and lead to customer loss. Customers, especially in finance and healthcare, are increasingly seeking partners who can show that they have processes that comply with privacy requirement, and some has requested certification such as ISO, Data Protection Trustmark.
Mitigating Financial Risks, Penalties and Operational Disruptions. Ensuring compliance avoids severe legal repercussions such as:
Fines up to 10% of annual turnover or $1 million, whichever is higher
Imprisonment of up to 3 years
Civil claims from customers for breach of contract or individuals for losses suffered due to data breaches
Increasing employee loyalty. Employees are more vocal and increasingly drawn to businesses that prioritise responsible practices. Knowing the business respects the collection and handling of personal information from individuals, customers and communities may boost employee motivation in the work they do.
Action required
We offer some tips on some basic steps to examine and enhance the privacy arrangements in your business.
Get in touch with us to learn more. We are here to partner with you, offering an unbiased perspective and exploring practical alternatives.
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