SG PDPA PDPA Sections 21-22
Enable parents and age-appropriate children to access and correct personal data, with responses within 30 days
Where this comes from
Provision: PDPA Sections 21-22; PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data, Section 9 - Access and Correction
Instrument: Singapore Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA)
Citation: Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (No. 26 of 2012), Sections 21 (Access Obligation) and 22 (Correction Obligation); PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data (March 2024), Section 9
Text version: PDPA 2012 (2020 Rev. Ed.); PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data (2024)
Who it applies to
It applies when all of these are true:
- Service is likely to be accessed by children under 18
- Service requires/offers account registration
- Users can create public profiles
What engineering work it implies
Sample acceptance criteria Landfall generates for this obligation:
- A user/guardian can request access, deletion, and export from the account UI
- Deletion removes or irreversibly anonymizes the data across primary stores and backups within the required window
- Export is provided in a structured, machine-readable format
- Requests, identity checks, and fulfillment are logged with timestamps
- A request that fails identity verification is refused safely (no data disclosed) and the user can retry
Questions people ask
- Does SG PDPA PDPA Sections 21-22 apply to my service?
- It applies when Service is likely to be accessed by children under 18; Service requires/offers account registration; Users can create public profiles.
- From when does this apply?
- SG PDPA PDPA Sections 21-22 applies from 1 March 2024. Its current status is: in force.
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