SG PDPA PDPA Section 25
Retain children's personal data only as long as necessary and implement shorter retention periods with automated deletion
Where this comes from
Provision: PDPA Section 25; PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data, Section 8 - Retention Limitation
Instrument: Singapore Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA)
Citation: Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (No. 26 of 2012), Section 25 (Retention Limitation Obligation); PDPC Advisory Guidelines on Children's Personal Data (March 2024), Section 8
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
- Data retention period is 1 year or Indefinitely
What engineering work it implies
Sample acceptance criteria Landfall generates for this obligation:
- Each data category has a defined, documented retention period tied to a purpose
- Data past its retention period is automatically deleted or irreversibly anonymized (including backups)
- Retention periods for children's data are minimized and reviewed
- Deletion runs are logged (category, record count, timestamp) for audit
- Backup lag does not resurrect data already deleted from primary stores past its window
Questions people ask
- Does SG PDPA PDPA Section 25 apply to my service?
- It applies when Service is likely to be accessed by children under 18; Data retention period is 1 year or Indefinitely.
- From when does this apply?
- SG PDPA PDPA Section 25 applies from 1 March 2024. Its current status is: in force.
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