19/04/2026
"Set up a meeting. Today."
If you work in HR, compliance, operations, or finance β this is the Slack message you're about to get from your boss. Maybe next week. Maybe tomorrow.
Here's what's changed: under the PDPA 2024 Amendment, improper disposal of personal data now carries fines of up to RM 1,000,000 per offence. The law applies to digital AND physical records. Your old HR storeroom, your decommissioned laptops, your archived finance files β all of it.
Most companies haven't audited their physical disposal process since the amendment passed. Which means most compliance officers are about to find themselves in a very uncomfortable meeting.
Be the one who brings it up first. Not the one explaining why it wasn't brought up.
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