BSA has been actively participating in the developments related to the Law on Cybersecurity and its various implementing decrees. For instance, BSA provided comments on Decree 53 in September 2022 and attended the Workshop organized by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) in November 2022. BSA also commented on proposed amendments to the draft Decree 72 in September 2021 and December 2021, as well as the draft Decree Implementing Law on Cybersecurity in December 2018. We are writing now to raise concerns about several issues in the final Decree No. 13/2023/ND-CP on the Protection of Personal Data (PDP Decree), which was published on April 17, 2023 and is scheduled to enter into force on July 1, 2023.

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