SG PDPA PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data, Section 16 - IMDA Code Alignment
Organisations should align with IMDA's Code of Practice for Online Safety and relevant advisory guidelines when processing children's data
Where this comes from
Provision: PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data, Section 16 - IMDA Code Alignment
Instrument: Singapore Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA)
Citation: PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data (March 2024), Section 16; IMDA Code of Practice for Online Safety (2023); IMDA Internet Code of Practice
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 allows user-generated content
What engineering work it implies
Sample acceptance criteria Landfall generates for this obligation:
- Processing of children's data is reviewed against the IMDA Code of Practice for Online Safety and PDPC advisory guidelines
- Gaps against the IMDA content-standards, user-safety, and accountability expectations are identified and remediated
- Alignment measures are documented as good-practice evidence
- Updates to the IMDA guidance are monitored and reflected in practice
- Unit tests cover the core logic (aim for >80% coverage on new code)
Questions people ask
- Does SG PDPA PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data, Section 16 - IM… apply to my service?
- It applies when Service is likely to be accessed by children under 18; Service allows user-generated content.
- From when does this apply?
- SG PDPA PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data, Section 16 - IM… applies from 1 March 2024. Its current status is: in force.
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